Unlocking a Frozen Secret

Join Us for a Screening of The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice

Wednesday, April 30th 3:30-4:30
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Q & A with Kathy Kasic, Director + Scientist
Free Entry - Limited Seating: EVENTBRITE

Hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet - buried for over 60 years in the archives of a secret Cold War military base—lay a forgotten core of ancient sediment. Lost to science for decades, its rediscovery cracked open one of the most urgent climate mysteries of our time.

We invite you to NYU Tisch’s Michaelson Theater for a special screening of The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice—a riveting new documentary that follows the international team of scientists racing to decode what this lost sediment reveals about Greenland’s ice-free past… and our planet’s future.

At the center of the story are scientists and researchers whose sleuthing through military archives and cutting-edge analysis have led to a dramatic breakthrough: proof that Greenland’s vast ice sheet once vanished, and could do so again. If it melts, sea levels worldwide would rise by 21 feet.

Blending science, history, and high-stakes discovery, this 60-minute film captures a real-life scientific thriller—one that connects a shadowy Arctic past to a rapidly changing global future.

This is not just a film about ice, memory, mystery, and a race to understand the truth hidden beneath two miles of ice. It is also an overview of how the culture of research and science in a free society is able discover the past, interpret the present and inform our future.

Free Entry - Limited Seating: EVENTBRITE