DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME is a mesmerizing, ethereal 2016 documentary by director Bill Morrison about the 1978 Dawson Film Find, in which copies of hundreds of silent films thought lost forever were discovered under the abandoned hockey rink of an old Yukon Gold Rush town. Morrison interweaves the story of the town's boom and bust with footage from the restored films themselves, tying them together with a haunting soundtrack. The effect is like floating through a dream. I loved it.
Which is why I was excited to discover that a few months ago, Kino Lorber put the whole film up for free viewing on YouTube.
