2024 | United States | Documentary

MELT: the memory of ice

  • English - 61 mins
  • Director | Betsey Biggs
  • Writer | Betsey Biggs
  • Producer | Betsey Biggs

STATUS: Completed

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MELT: the memory of ice is a visually mesmerizing cinematic song cycle, a powerful and contemplative invitation to sit bedside in communion with our earth’s body melting and spilling through climate change. Created during a summer the composer/director spent in Greenland with her mother and 5-year-old daughter, the film slowly explores a spectacular river of icebergs, increasingly interrupted by flashes of memory. An immersive soundtrack rich with glimmers of sound — calving ice, reindeer bells, sled dogs — surrounds the spellbinding vocal ensemble Moving Star and a solo child reciting an unfathomable list of winter’s loss — flurries, ice skates, snow angels. The ice melts on. (4K, Color, Dolby Atmos sound)

Climate Change Greenland Ice Melting Environmental Film Cinematic Song Cycle Memory And Loss Immersive Sound Vocal Ensemble
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