"Time and Water" Review: Sara Dosa's Poetic Documentary Elegy for Iceland's Lost Glacier
By
Marya E. Gates
3d ago· 8 min readenReview
100/100
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Summary
A review of Sara Dosa's documentary "Time and Water," which follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason's personal and poetic exploration of the first glacier to "die" from climate change. Framed as a time capsule to the future, the film blends personal family archives with Iceland's mythic past to create an elegy for a vanishing glacier. The review praises Dosa's ability to make a "colder" subject as beautiful and haunting as her Oscar-nominated "Fire of Love."
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· 3 pulledFramed as a time capsule from Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason to the future, 'Time and Water' is a film about archives.
Sara Dosa returns with a much colder but equally beautiful film about the first glacier to 'die' from climate change.
A poetic and haunting elegy for a glacier.
"Fire of Love" director Sara Dosa returns with a much colder but equally beautiful film about the first glacier to "die" from climate change.
