(2007, 6 minutes)

The filmmaker answers the question, why did you move to Dawson City, Yukon? The buildings are false fronts, relics from the past. Nothing is what it claims to be. What is real in this frontier town: the sense of place, the warmth of the community, the salve of a savage land. The song lyrics describe Dawson as a spiritually grounded place, where the narrator’s heart, “a frost-heaved ground” is melted down.

The film was shot mostly on a Bolex wind-up camera on 16mm high-contrast negative film with. It was hand processed to produce the grainy images.


Director: Lulu Keating
Producers: Lulu Keating, Red Snapper Films