Betsey Biggs

large-scale public digital video projection. 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

ice cracks
rivers rise
they called it winter

In the fall of 2024, Night Lights Denver commissioned me to create a large-scale projection for Denver’s Daniels & Fisher Tower, an historic clocktower soaring 330 feet above the city’s busy downtown promenade. I immediately imagined some of the larger-than-life cinematography from my film, MELT: The Memory of Ice, brought back to its enormous scale through the program’s powerful projectors. The three slow shots of Greenland in they called it follow the twists and turns of ice melting and flowing out of the Arctic Circle, anticipating a world in which all northern ice has melted.

special thanks to tara knight and sharifa lafon

CREDITS

artist: Betsey Biggs
cinematography: Troy Fairbanks
projection: David Moke, Night Lights Denver

GRANTS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS

2025: Commission from Night Lights Denver ($2,500), Denver, CO, USA.

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS

2025: “Night Lights Denver,” Daniels & Fisher Tower, Denver, CO, USA.