Frozen time is a dazzling cinematic experience, a deep dive into the connections and contradictions of the 20th century archive. Frozen time is a 2016 american documentary film written, edited and directed by bill morrison and produced by morrison and madeleine molyneaux. Klik voor uitgebreide informatie over draaitijden, trailers, achtergrond en online tickets. Frozen time, however, suggests that those reverberations originate in a past we can only know in fragments. Alex somers mines musical gold for documentary dawson. Frozen time depicts the unique history of this canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation. Booklet essays by lawrence weschler and alberto zambenedetti interview with filmmaker bill morrison postscript trailer.
A more evocatively poetic title, say gold and silver, might suggest the extraordinary double helix of north american history and movie lore that bill morrisons foundfootage documentary contains. The second is the incredible boomandbustandboomandbust saga of dawson city itself, where the movies were discovered. Located just south of the arctic circle, dawson city was settled in 1896 and became the center of the canadian gold rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. Frozen time is a triumphant work of art that chronicles the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation, discovering another world in the process. Frozen time, despite a title evoking either a 1980s apple ii adventure or a wevelostcount blockbuster sequel, proves to be morrisons best film in yearsa bona fide adventure through history, hopscotching across the turn of the 19th century.
The confluence of a gold rush in the yukon and the birth of cinema in the waning days of the 19th century form the basis for this masterful, revelatory film, which uses film footage that was long feared lost to tell these interconnecting stories. But so much was lost in dawson city, its natural resources stripped by mining, its native inhabitants forced elsewhere. Frozen time takes a moody, ambient approach, as cool and mysterious as the gold rush images that fill the documentary. This meditation on cinemas past from pieces together the. Frozen time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a subarctic swimming pool deep in the yukon territory, in dawson city, located about 350.
Frozen time will screen as part of the spotlight on documentary section of the 54th new york film festival september 30 oct. Alex somers mines musical gold for documentary dawson city. Frozen time, a treasure of decadesold silent films, buried in the frozen earth of the yukon for several decades, is uncovered and restored, telling the story not. Booklet essays by lawrence weschler and alberto zambenedetti interview with filmmaker bill morrison. Dawson city frozen time a treasure trove of silent film buried under the swimming pool of an exboomtown. The nowfamous dawson city collection was uncovered in 1978 when a new recreation center was being built and a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Frozen time, a treasure of decadesold silent films, buried in the frozen earth of the yukon for several decades, is. Frozen time, currently playing in new york and expanding to other cities this friday, morrison looks at the surviving films and reconstructs the extraordinary. The secrets of silentfilm footage found buried in the.
Frozen time, a feature length film by bill morrison u. The secrets of silentfilm footage found buried in the earth. Frozen time is a oneofakind curio of a movie that captures, through a collage of photographs, silent documentary footage, and pretalkie hollywood film, the story of a. It was screened in the orizzonti competition section at the 73rd venice international film festival. Frozen time tells the story of one of the greatest film finds in history by using the. Dec 20, 2017 the chicagoborn filmmakers astonishing documentary dawson city. The kino lorber kino classics bluray of dawson city.
Frozen time is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. The history of dawson city, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of. It concerns the history of dawson city, canada, deep in the yukon, from its creation. Morrison leaves us with the degraded images of a woman dancing, a ghost seen through time. Frozen time yify subtitles download, yts subtitles dawson city. The discovery of the dawson city find is legendary and this acclaimed documentary tells the story of a town through the footage that was discovered there. Frozen time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered. Movies may just be just over a century old, but even beyond the. Frozen time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a subarctic swimming pool deep in the yukon territory, in dawson city, located about 350 miles. The buried history of a gold rush town found on nitrate film. Frozen time could have benefited from judicious trimming of its twohour running time, and there are times when its wandering focus proves irritating. This meditation on cinemas past from decasia director bill morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a longlost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Dawson went from a rowdy mining town with brothels and gambling houses to a midcentury rural hamlet with a fateful thirst for hockey.
With kathy jonesgates, michael gates, sam kula, bill ofarrell. The first has to do with the accidental discovery of 35mm film reels buried in the yukon over one hundred years ago and miraculously preserved by the permafrost. Frozen time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a subarctic swimming pool deep in the yukon territory, in dawson city, located about 350 miles south of the arctic circle. With the help of canadian film authorities and the museum of modern art, the newsreel and historical film helping to illustrate the show is encoded in excellent shape. Discovered buried under a hockey rink in a former klondike gold rush town, their story reveals the links between the movie business and manifest destiny in north america. Frozen time depicts the unique history of this canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile. Frozen time begins with a brightly colored, completely intact clip from a television show about baseball in which mr. Frozen time may also be available with public performance rights ppr and digital site licensing dsl for colleges and universities. Propelled by alex somers transcendent score, dawson city. Frozen time pieces together the bizarre 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 subarctic swimming pool deep in the yukon territory, in dawson city, located about 350 miles south of the arctic circle. A more evocatively poetic title, say gold and silver, might suggest the extraordinary double helix of north american history and movie lore that bill morrisons foundfootage documentary contains the film owes its existence, first of all, to the. This meditation on cinemas past from decasia director bill morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a. The history of dawson city, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
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Morrison draws on these permafrostprotected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an. When dawson city swelled to more than 40,000 inhabitants in a matter. Frozen time depicts the unique history of this canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and. Frozen time pieces together the bizarre true history of a longlost collection of 533 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. It is the picture of the rise and fall of a civilization. Frozen time 2017 tt5215486 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 subarctic swimming pool deep in the yukon territory, in.