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. At its centre is Okjökull, a 700-year-old glacier declared dead to climate change in 2014, and the grandparents, Hulda and Árni, who spent their lives recording Iceland’s ice. From Oscar-nominated director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love), the film is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.
