Optimism

2018
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 14 mins
|43 Seconds
Colour,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: HD Digital file
Original Format: Super-8mm

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The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find fortune in alluvial gravel are part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north. Cancan dancers, curlers, ore smelters, former city officials and a curious cliff-side mirrored disc congregate to form a town portrait. Shot in location in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

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