Dawson City: Frozen Time
Dawson City: Frozen Time
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This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers.

Bill Morrison---USA---2016---120 mins.

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   | Nilgiri#1

One of a kind. Interesting, for sure. Could have used a bit more contextualization, although there is some at the beginning and again at the end. Mostly consists of very, very short clips - so short that there's scarcely time to read the source credit. But it does present a story of the Gold Rush, of Dawson, and of early film that could interest many.

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