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)

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Why make this film?

I am primarily a composer and artist; this is my first feature film; I made it after wandering around the world’s most active glacier with my mother and 5-year-old daughter. As I struggle to give my child the same intimacy with the wild I’ve enjoyed, I have found myself wondering about melting ice: will there be winter in the world when she is my age? There are so many documentaries about the facts and figures of climate change out there, and I wanted to offer audiences something different: a glimpse at the experience I had in Greenland, the chance to simply sit, in the tradition of slow cinema, and be with the earth’s ice as it melts and spills its way through climate change, to witness their own feelings as music washes over them. I hope it resonates for you.