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Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water. (PG, 93 min.)
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Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a 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 Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change. [1-2 Special]
Starring: Andri Snær Magnason
Director: Sara Dosa
Language(s): Icelandic, English
Genre: Documentary, Nature
"A stirring record of human hopes and regrets."
— Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"American composer and electronic musician Dan Deacon’s lovely score adds to the elegiac nature of the film."
— G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
"Visually striking throughout, the deliberately paced film is a haunting exploration of the relationship between humans and nature."
— Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue
"Creates a time capsule of videos, memories and eloquent observations that add up to work of incredible beauty and heartache."
— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
"Time and Water is a curiously vibrant elegy, teeming with appreciation for the intimate majesty that is all life, generational and geologic."
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"Magnason and Dosa have crafted a deeply personal, monumental documentary, in moments big and small, to leave for future generations."
— Daniel Howat, Next Best Picture
"A shot of ice drifting into the sea and melting into the waves arrives, like so many beautifully chosen images in this film, as a disquieting metaphor."
— Rachel Pronger, Sight & Sound
"While it may lack piercing analysis of the climate disaster, its blend of deep-time patterns and family nostalgia is handled with rare delicacy."
— Hilary A White, Irish Independent
"Time and Water is an arresting documentary about Iceland’s disappearing glaciers that avoids the doomy and familiar traps of environmental film-making."
— Tara Brady, Irish Times
"Yes, it’s easy to mourn what we’re losing, but what she captures should inspire us to realize that the Earth is still worth fighting for. It’s not too late to save it."
— Zachary Lee, RogerEbert.com
"Amid the dying ice and finite human life, Dosa and Magnason gracefully introduce other themes — about the nature of recording technology, and an Iceland steeped in storytelling."
— Danny Leigh, Financial Times
"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."
— Wendy Ide, Screen International
"Time and Water is an effectively balanced and affectingly emotional piece of non-fiction filmmaking. Both the human subject and the earthly one are given significance by playing off each other."
— Joel Copling, Spectrum Culture
"A poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery. . .and ow craven capitalism over the last several hundred years has destroyed her."
— Marya E. Gates, IndieWire
