Tuesday, September 30 at 6:55: Q&A with director Bill Morrison after the screening
Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Great Flood) pieces together the bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 1910s and 20s, lost until they were unearthed from a subarctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978. Accompanied by Alex Somers’ elegiac score, this meditation excavated both the rediscovered films and Dawson’s own glory days as the epicenter of the Klondike gold rush.
Screening as part of our series 20 Films for 20 Years, Part 2
“A bona fide adventure through history, hopscotching across the turn of the 19th century.” – Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment
Official selection: Venice Film Festival
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