Myndin er byggð á bók Andra Snæs Magnasonar Um tímann og vatnið. Leikstjóri myndarinnar, Sara Dosa, hefur áður hlotið tilnefningu til Óskarsverðlauna fyrir heimildamyndina Fire of Love.
Time and Water dregur upp ljóðræna og áhrifaríka mynd af tengslum mannsins við náttúruna, tímann og komandi kynslóðir, sem Andri Snær setur í samhengi við fjölskyldu sína. Á frumsýningunni voru auk Andra viðstaddir sex Íslendingar sem komu að framleiðslunni. Þeir segja það hafa verið áhrifamikið að upplifa hversu djúpt snortnir áhorfendur voru.
Myndin fékk góðar viðtökur hjá IndieWire:
Framed as a time capsule from Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason to the future, “Time and Water” — the magnificent new documentary from Oscar-nominated “Fire of Love” director Sara Dosa — is a film about archives. Personal archives from Magnason and his family that connect generations. The historic archives of Iceland that contain its mythic past. But also the archives made by the Earth herself, its past trials and tribulations frozen among its glaciers in the amber of time. What happens when the ice melts? Does our history go with it?
Sömuleiðis hjá The Film Stage:
Photos and video from the past remind us of what was and what will never be again. Yet Time and Water often feels like a celebration, a reminder of what’s right in front of us. Whether it be glaciers or grandmas or flowers or children, there is love somewhere nearby. In lesser hands, this all may play a bit cloying. Luckily, Dosa is deft in her ability. Magnason’s words and images play with each other perfectly, building a bittersweet gnawing at the heart that will resonate with most everybody. Despite its lost memories and lost glaciers and change ecosystems, there is so much optimism here. Life goes on, after all. Until it doesn’t.
Að myndinni standa National Geographic Documentary Films og Sandbox Films, í samstarfi við Ninmah Foundation og Signpost Pictures Production. Meðframleiðandi myndarinnar er Compass Films á Íslandi, Heather Millard og Andri Snær Magnason. Kristín Ólafsdóttir var yfirframleiðandi. Auk þeirra komu fjölmargir Íslendingar að gerð myndarinnar.
Hér má horfa á Variety viðtal við klippara myndarinnar.
