This handy look back at an important Walker commission from the 2010/2011 Performing Arts season features live performance footage and interviews with the collaborators trumpeter Dave Douglas and filmmaker Bill Morrison.
Film as Social Memory: Bill Morrison on Dawson City: Frozen Time
A trove of films unearthed in 1978 from the permafrost under the Yukon town of Dawson City forms the basis of Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time. But the discovery of silent-era gems sparked a much more expansive story for the filmmaker on capitalism, death, and memory. Here, Morrison reflects on the project's genesis and its narrative of the American Experience.
