Please join us at the Centre for Culture and Technology’s Coach House for a Monday Night Seminar led by Patrick Keilty (Faculty of Information, Cinema Studies Institute):
“Provenanced Aesthetics: Archival Contrivance in Dawson City: Frozen Time”
Archives are never simply a place where moving images are stored and preserved as a site for historical accumulation, material abeyance, and administrative power. Instead, through a close reading of sound and editing, this talk argues that Dawson City: Frozen Time (Dir. Bill Morrison, 2016) reframes provenance as an aesthetic contrivance and an act of continuous creation that reminds us of history’s instability.