A Long Way from a Box of Broken Slides
Breaking Ice: The Making of Cracks in the Ice is a film about a question I couldn't answer. My son asked me what the world was going to look like because of climate change...and I didn't have the words. What I had was a camera, a studio, and a box of broken 19th-century glacier slides. The film follows what happened next.
Over the past year, Breaking Ice: The Making of Cracks in the Ice, has traveled further than I ever expected, to more than a dozen festivals across the US and Europe, two awards, nominations, and honorable mentions from Los Angeles to Paris. Best Environmental Film at the LA International Art Film Fest. Best Micro-Short at the Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival. Selected for the Communication Arts Photography Annual 2026. A nomination at Cannes Arts Film Fest. An honorable mention in Paris, as part of the United Nations International Year of Glaciers' Preservation.
That last one still stops me. The film was selected as a finalist for Stories from the Cryosphere: Glaciers on the Edge; a UN-connected event that brings together scientists, filmmakers, and global audiences around one of the most urgent conversations of our time. To have this work (which started with a box of broken 19th-century glacier slides in my studio) end up on that stage, in that room, as part of that dialogue... that's the whole point of making it.
The photography series that preceded the film, Cracks in the Ice, has been part of that conversation too; exhibited at the Smithsonian's Art x Climate initiative, UN climate events in New York and Paris, and solo and group shows at the Lander Art Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. Since the film's release, we've continued to pair the images and the film in pop-up exhibits alongside screenings. The work keeps finding new rooms to live in, and new people willing to sit with what it's asking.
I got into this work because I believed it mattered. Every screening, every exhibit, every person who walks away thinking differently about what we stand to lose, that's the impact. That's why I keep making it.
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