MELT: the memory of ice

Tickets:
Friday, September 5th — 7:20pm — Room B222
Saturday, September 13th — 12:30pm — Room D100

Documentary • USA • 2025 • 74 Minutes
Director: Betsey Biggs
Producers: Jill Mazursky
Cinematographer: Troy Fairbanks
Composer: Betsey Biggs

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.