Time and Water: Film Screening & Conversation
https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/taste-of-iceland/new-york/iceland-unfiltered
The new National Geographic documentary Time and Water, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa (Fire of Love), weaves seven decades of Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason's family film archives into a poetic elegy for Iceland's vanishing glaciers. Watch the film in full, then stay for a conversation between Andri Snær and Dosa on memory, ice, and what we stand to lose. Sign up for free tickets.
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, plays, nonfiction and science fiction. His book “On Time and Water” has been translated into more than 30 languages. Magnason has received international awards like the Philip K Dick Honorary Mention for “LoveStar,” the Prima Tiziano Terzani in Italy for “On Time and Water” and the Green Earth Book Award for his YA book, “The Casket of Time.” “The Story of the Blue Planet” has been translated into more than 40 languages and his play based on the story has been performed in 15 countries. He is the co-director of three documentary films that have premiered in international festivals like IDFA, RIFF, CPH:DOX and HOTDOCS. He is the co-director, with Þorfinnur Guðnason, of the documentary film “Dreamland” (2009). His second documentary film, directed with Anni Ólafsdóttir, “The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole,” internationally premiered at CPH:DOX in 2021. His third documentary premiered in 2021, also with Ólafsdóttir, “Apausalype” (Emergence Magazine).
Sara Dosa is an Oscar®-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with more-than-human nature. The films she has directed, “Fire of Love” (2022), “The Seer & The Unseen” (2019) and “The Last Season” (2015), have won numerous awards, including a Peabody and the Directors’ Guild of America Award, and were nominated for over 40 awards, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award. Dosa’s work has been shown at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, and has screened in partnership with museums such as the MOMA, BAMPFA and the Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to the inaugural class of DOCNYC’s “40 under 40” and inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures’ documentary branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in sociology and anthropology and has a joint master’s in anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dosa lives and works in California.
