Dawson City: Frozen Time

A hypnotic, dreamlike archival collage where decaying silent images and a pulsing score drift you through buried history like a half-remembered ghost story.

Directed by

Bill Morrison

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula

Tagline

Film Was Born Of An Explosive.

Overview

The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory, in Dawson City, located about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, isolation, survival, greed

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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