THE MEMORY OF DARKNESS, LIGHT, AND ICE
Streaming Launch Party!!
When: Tuesday October 7th, 2025
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm (60 min film + Q&A)
Where: Hinde Auditorium in the Student Union
Synopsis: During the 1960s, the U.S. Army built a clandestine camp, Camp Century, in northwestern Greenland with a plan to shuttle nuclear warheads under the Greenland Ice Sheet. Glaciologists at the camp drilled a mile into the ice, extracting sediment from under it. The sediment was forgotten to science for decades, but contained evidence of past life, clues that parts of Greenland were once ice-free. The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice is an award-winning documentary tracing the rediscovery of this core and its groundbreaking implications for our understanding of sea level rise and climate change. By merging historical intrigue with cutting-edge science, the film follows researchers as they uncover how the Greenland Ice Sheet collapsed before and may do so again, threatening a 21-foot global sea level rise with dire economic consequences. Directed by scientist-filmmaker Kathy Kasic, the film serves as both a scientific revelation and a call for urgent climate action.
Here are some accolades about the film:
- It was invited as one of three films to American Association for the Advancement of Science (The Hunt for the Oldest DNA was another). It won Best Environmental Filmmaking Award at Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary at the Raw Science Film Festival in NYC, was a selection for Santiago Wild FF, screened in Copenhagen at the Niehls Bohr Institute during the National Greenland Ice Sheet Science Conference, and was part of a Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition Task Force Briefing at the US Capitol.
- It is also making the rounds of community and university theatrical screenings, playing at Columbia University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Vermont, Middlebury, UConn, UL Brussels, Utah State, Universidad Católica Santiago, Chile, and other universities internationally.
- The film also inspired the CA State Senate to create the annual "Eunice Newton Foote Day on July 17" in California.
The film will have US/Canada distribution on Amazon/iTunes and Arte on October 14, and has been translated into French, Spanish, German and three dialects of Greenlandic.
