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BURIED NEWS
USA 2021 - DCP - 12 minutes, in English Director, Print Courtesy: Bill Morrison
Archival footage produced in 1917 and 1920 makes its way to the surface after having been buried in an abandoned swimming pool for forty-nine years. Including four different news stories recovered in this excavation by a construction team in Dawson City, Morrison explores the ways in which “race has historically been used as a tool in the USA to divide people for the commercial or political gain of those in power.”
–Il Cinema Ritrovato
Friday, July 14
6PM | MFC 1
Sponsored by SBS/Carbon Copy
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
USA 2016 - DCP - 120 minutes, in English
Director, Screenplay: Bill Morrison
Producers: Madeleine Molyneaux, Bill Morrison
Print Courtesy: Kino Lorber
“An instantaneously recognizable masterpiece.” –The New York Times. A 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 deep in the Yukon permafrost. Morrison 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. Dawson City: Frozen Time is a triumphant work of art that spins the life cycle of a singular film collection into a breathtaking history of the 20th century.
