Time and Water
PG
Why watch?
“If you love your grandparents, glaciers and Sara Dosa’s previous Oscar-nominated film, Fire of Love, you’ll likely fall for Time and Water too. By linking his personal family time capsule with that of glaciers, Magnason has a huge impact in helping us to conceptualise the demise of our planet – something we too often struggle to, or choose not to, grasp. Magnason’s narration is wonderfully poetic and I appreciate the way Magnason anthropomorphises glaciers to amplify grief at their deaths. So many of his lines have stuck with me – they’re often gutting but also so beautiful! Speaking of beauty – the traditional Icelandic folk song-poems, rímurs, in the film are breathtaking. A glorious example of Magnason’s determination to archive beauty and not allow it to go extinct.”
Martha Boyd,
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Hyde Park Pick: Time and Water
Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him.
From Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love), Time and Water is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.
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“It’s a pensive, reflective film which combines striking Super 16 archive material with a deft exploration of the way the narratives of our lives are intertwined with the lands we inhabit.”
Screen International
“forces us to ponder what remains after we’ve left this earth, and what kind of planet we want to leave behind.”
Slate
