![]() ![]() ![]() “So we all have different spellings,” she said. Speaking about the diffrent spellings, Tina said it “must’ve been horrible” for her mother to “not to even be able to have her children’s names spelled correctly.” The first time, and I was told be happy that you’re getting a birth certificate because, at one time, Black people didn’t get birth certificates.” She continued: “So I said, ‘Well, why didn’t you argue and make them correct it?’ And she said, ‘I did one time. And my mom’s reply to me and was that’s what they put on your birth certificate.” “And you know it’s all these different spellings. “And it’s interesting and it shows you the times because we asked my mother when I was grown I was like why is my brother’s name spelled B-E-Y-I-N-C-E?” Like all of Morrison’s work, Dawson City is a haunting experience that takes place in suspended, nonlinear time.“I think me and my brother Skip were the only two that had B-E-Y-O-N-C-E,” she added. It is also a history of the 35mm film prints that were shipped to Dawson between the 1910s and 1920s, then hidden away and forgotten for 50 years until they were unearthed in the initial stages of a construction project, images from which are a key element in Morrison’s cinematic mosaic. Overlooked upon its release (by myself included), Dawson City: Frozen Time deserves an unearthing." - Richard Lawson, Vanity Fairīill Morrison’s new film is a history in still and moving images charting the transformation of Tr’ochëk, a fishing camp at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers, into the epicenter of the Yukon gold rush at the turn of the last century. There’s also something scary about Dawson City: Frozen Time, in all its reminding that the scramble and noise of our times-as advanced and busy as any have ever been-will one day disappear into their own kind of silence. It’s a lyrical movie, a mesmerizing glimpse into the past. Basically, Morrison’s film captures the human experience through images of humans captured on film a century ago. Zooming even further out, Dawson City: Frozen Time talks keenly-if not directly-about what it is to be people among one another, to strive for success in collaboration and competition, to seek out shared entertainment and diversion from the lonely harshness of life in the world. In showing us clips of these lost movies, all about 100 years old, Morrison also tells the story of Dawson City, a boom town alive with want and opportunity, the locus of a human surge that was at once prodigious and ruinous. Dawson City: Frozen Time is, most literally, a documentary about the discovery of over 500 silent-film reels buried in a former gold rush town in the Yukon. ![]() "As haunting a film as there was this decade, Bill Morrison’s painstakingly stitched-together collage of old movie footage pulls us into a semi-distant past full of forgotten life. Filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Miners’ Hymns, The Great Flood) deftly combines excerpts from this remarkable collection with historical footage, photographs, and original interviews, to explore the complicated history of Dawson City, a Canadian Gold Rush town founded across the river from a First Nation hunting camp, and then traces how the development of that town both reflected and influenced the evolution of modern Cinema.Ĭombined with a powerful, evocative score by Alex Somers ( Captain Fantastic Hale County This Morning, This Evening Honey Boy), orchestrated and arranged by Ricardo Romaneiro, Dawson City: Frozen Time is a triumphant work of art that spins the life cycle of a singular film collection into a breath-taking history of the 20th century. “An instantaneously recognizable masterpiece.” – The New York TimesĪ hallucinatory cinematic fever dream, Dawson City: Frozen Time tells the bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, dating from the 1910s and 20s, that accumulated at the end of a film distribution line in northwestern Canada and which were miraculously discovered some 50 years later, in 1978, buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost. This film presentation will be accompanied by a live performance of the score by L.A.’s contemporary ensemble Wild Up and a woman’s choir from Tonality. ![]()
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