WORLD PREMIERE @ The Denver Museum of Nature and Science
MELT: THE MEMORY OF ICE
BETSEY BIGGS
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Doors: 6:30 pm / Film: 7:00 pm
Followed by a presentation and Q&A
Join us in the Infinity Theater for the world premiere of MELT: The Memory of Ice. Experience this exploration of our changing planet through the lens of local filmmaker Betsey Biggs, Ph.D. Following the screening, we are honored to welcome Richard Nunn, Assistant Curator and database manager of the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), for a discussion on the significance of this work and the invaluable insights that ice can reveal. Watch the trailer below.
We are thrilled to partner with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to present this immersive world premiere. Exclusively showcased at DMNS, this event is a highlight of the 9th Annual Digerati Experimental Media Festival, which delves into experimental works at the intersection of art, science, and technology. We extend our gratitude to DMNS, and specifically to Austin Terrell, for collaboration in bringing this unique program to the community.
MELT: The Memory of Ice is a minimalist cinematic song cycle for singers, electronic music, and film, a personal reckoning with the earth’s body changing, melting, and spilling as global warming melts our ice caps and threatens winter. MELT’s sounds, images and texts are drawn from four weeks with the director's mother and young daughter exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet and the world’s most actively melting glacier, the Jakobshavn Glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland, as well as from personal and archival materials.
Betsey Biggs (b. 1965, Connecticut, USA) is an artist and composer whose work, described by the New Yorker as “psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears,” explores relationships among sound, image, identity, and place through audiovisual installations, walks, performances, photographs, scores, and films. Recent work includes a feature-length cinematic song cycle, MELT: The Memory of Ice; We Are Here FM, a web-based audiovisual installation, and performances with the international transmission art collective The Conduction Series (founded by August Black). Biggs earned her PhD in Music Composition at Princeton University, and serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
