Time and Water
PG
Why watch?
“Wow! I learnt so much from this film and was so moved by it. I love how poetic it is, which is not surprising since its narrator is a poet: Andri Snær Magnason. I love the way he anthropomorphises glaciers to amplify grief at their deaths. I love that he introduced me to the excellent Icelandic word ‘fuglabjarg,’ meaning ‘bird cliff.’ It’s also used to describe a noisy gathering – the volumes of a busy wedding couldn’t be more perfectly conveyed than a cliff full of gannets! Magnason’s point that this double meaning may become extinct as our bird populations decline really hit me hard. So many of his lines have stuck with me. Another wonderful example is when he wonders about his country’s name, Iceland, and whether saying its name will summon a ghost as the ice disappears. Gutting but also so beautiful! Speaking of beauty – the traditional Icelandic folk songs in the film are breathtaking.”
Martha Boyd,
Digital Marketing Coordinator
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
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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In partnership with Film Quarry and Green Carnation Film Club
