'MELT: The Memory of Ice': A Haunting Arctic Elegy

'MELT: The Memory of Ice': A Haunting Arctic Elegy

Betsey Biggs' documentary captures the Greenland Ice Sheet's fragile beauty. Film director Betsey Biggs spent a summer in Greenland with her mother and five-year-old daughter, exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Through her personal experience as a musician, artist, and mother, we see and hear the melting of Arctic glaciers in real time. The documentary premiered at the Denver Experimental Media Festival in 2024 and was shown at the SF Green Festival in 2025.

MELT: The Memory of Ice is “a visually mesmerizing cinematic song cycle,”

Betsey Biggs has a background in Music Composition from Princeton University and works as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. The documentary showcases the "ice castles", part of the glacier that first covered Greenland over two million years ago.

Author's summary: Documentary about Greenland Ice Sheet's fragile beauty.

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