Dawson City: Frozen Time

Friday, September 26 - Thursday, October 2, 2025

Special Events

  • Tue Sep 30 : 

    Q&A with dir. Bill Morrison after the 6:55 screening

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SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

Tuesday, September 30 at 6:55: Q&A with director Bill Morrison after the screening

Bill Morrison (Decasia, The Great Flood) pieces together the bizarre history of a collection of 500 films from the 1910s and 20s, lost until they were unearthed from a subarctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory in 1978. Accompanied by Alex Somers’ elegiac score, this meditation excavated both the rediscovered films and Dawson’s own glory days as the epicenter of the Klondike gold rush.

Screening as part of our series 20 Films for 20 Years, Part 2

“A bona fide adventure through history, hopscotching across the turn of the 19th century.” – Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment

Official selection: Venice Film Festival

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  • Country USA
  • Year 2017
  • Running Time 120 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Kino Lorber
  • Director Bill Morrison
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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