'MELT: The Memory of Ice': A Haunting Arctic Elegy
Betsey Biggs' documentary captures the Greenland Ice Sheet's fragile beauty.
Documentary Overview
Film director Betsey Biggs spent a summer in Greenland with her mother and five-year-old daughter, exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet.
- Release year: 2024
- Duration: 1hr 14m
- Country: USA
MELT: The Memory of Ice is “a visually mesmerizing cinematic song cycle,”
The documentary premiered at the Denver Experimental Media Festival in 2024 and was shown at the SF Green Festival in 2025.
Betsey Biggs has a background in music composition from Princeton University and works as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The film showcases the "ice castles" high above the Arctic whiteness, part of the glacier that first covered Greenland over two million years ago.
Author's summary: A documentary about the melting Arctic glaciers.
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