Dawson City: frozen time
"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 brough 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 Ros collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City : Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation"--Container
Closed-captioned|||Not rated
Hypnotic Pictures and Picture Palace Pictures present ; a film by Bill Morrison ; in association with Arte-La Lucarne and The Museum of Modern Art ; produced by Bill Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux ; written, edited and directed by Bill Morrison
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Originally produced in 2016
"Bonus features: Booklet essays by Lawrence Weschler and Alberto Zambenedetti; Interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison; Original Dawson City film reels; postscript; trailer"--Container
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Director, producer, writer, editor, Bill Morrison ; producer, Madeleine Molyneaux ; music, Alex Somers ; sound designer, John Somers.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; 1.33:1, 5.1 surround
