The MAC department invites you to a special screening of Dawson City: Frozen Time followed by a Q&A with Academy Award nominee Bill Morrison and MAC professor Allison de Fren
What do Sid Grauman (Grauman's Chinese Theatre), Alexander Pantages (Hollywood Pantages Theatre), and Frederick Trump (Donald Trump's grandfather) have in common?
They all made their fortunes entertaining the gold miners in Dawson City.
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME depicts the unique history of this Yukon town where the gold rush met the silver screen by piecing together a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s buried in the ice.
Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was first settled in 1896 and became the center of the Klondike Gold Rush, bringing 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final railroad stop on a distribution chain that sent film 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 cache of film cans. Acclaimed filmmaker Bill 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 Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers.
Winner of Most Innovative Documentary at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME is, according to critic Kenneth Turan of the LA Times, "wondrous, almost indescribable. A complete astonishment from beginning to end."
Film Trailer here
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