23 NOVEMBER 2026 15.00-17.00 BIO SKANDIA
As Iceland’s glaciers melt, poet and author Andri Snær Magnason creates a cinematic time capsule to preserve a disappearing world. Drawing on personal archives, family photographs, films, songs and folktales, he weaves together the story of his family and homeland.
Time and Water (trailer here) is a reflection on memory, belonging and what it means to live through a time of profound environmental change. The film is directed by Sara Dosa, who was nominated for an Oscar for Fire of Love, and produced by Shane Boris, who won an Oscar for Navalny. Time and Water premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Andri Snær Magnason will attend the screening and take part in a Q&A afterwards.
Magnason's book On Time and Water has been published in 30 languages. Much of his work explores what language and storytelling can do. He has given talks around the world and worked with universities, scientists, business leaders and the wider public. Last year, he performed at Reaktorhallen and Nalen in collaboration with Strange Attractors Records, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet.
The screening is a collaboration between the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Strange Attractors Records and Norrsken Foundation.
★★★★ Financial Times
“What a heartbreaking film Time and Water is…Gorgeous ode to vanishing Icelandic glaciers and lives”
Wall Street Journal
"The narrator may be paying tribute to his kin and his country, but his underlying subject is nothing less than time itself.”
