F.I.L.M. Series: “Dawson City: Frozen Time” (2016) presented by Bill Morrison

Hamilton College F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) presented by Bill Morrison
Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
2 p.m.
Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building at Hamilton College
FREE and open to the public

The history of the Klondike gold rush and the town it created is the subject of “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” a new film by Bill Morrison (“The Great Flood”).

Morrison “mines” the Dawson City “archive” of early films, which, like literal gold, had been buried in Klondike permafrost for generations.

Dawson’s golden moment lured a remarkable group of dreamers to northern Canada—you’ll be surprised at who shows up in this engaging historical chronicle.

“Los Angeles Times” film critic Kenneth Turan called Dawson City “an aesthetic knockout that’s crammed with wild tales, amazing facts and unconventional personalities…a history of a particular place that turns into an examination of an art form as well as a gloss on the political history of the 20^th century.”

Coming up:
Sunday, Dec. 3: Tomonari Nishikawa presents recent work