MELT: The Memory of Ice

MELT: The Memory of Ice is a personal meditation on the earth’s body changing, melting, and spilling due to climate change. Made from a summer in the Arctic with her mother and five year old, the film blends striking Arctic scenery, ambient music made from glimmers of ice, and a spellbinding vocal ensemble chanting an unfathomable list of winter’s loss — flurries, orcas, snow angels. The ice melts on.
Writer/Director: Betsey Biggs (she/her); Producers: Betsey Biggs and Susan Capitelli (she/her); Cinematographer: Troy Fairbanks (he/him); Music: Betsey Biggs and Moving Star Voices

Betsey Biggs, whose work is described by The New Yorker as “psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears,” explores relationships among sound, image, and memory. Recent work includes MELT: The Memory of Ice; a web-based installation, We Are Here FM; and transmission collective The Conduction Series. Biggs earned her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University, and is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Practices at CU Boulder (CMCI).

This work was supported by a Creative Residency at the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance.

Additional funding and support made possible by CMCI, CU's Center for Humanities and Arts, CU's Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, The Mazursky Family Foundation, Susan Capitelli, Ann Reeves and Bill Swanson, Jim and Elinor Biggs, and many others.

Host or Publisher ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder