Thursday, June 08, 2017

"A Tabernacle Too, but One That Welcomes the Viewer Inside"

"It's easy to think of movie-watching as a passive experience, one in which you sit back and the movie happens to you through the medium of light and sound. Early nitrate film did not live for long, but its fragmentary remains remind us that movies have lived a material life just as vital and animated as painting. I saw a cabinet containing nitrate reels once in the basement of the New York Historical Society, what was left of a collection that had partially burned. It was like looking at an opaque tabernacle."

Josephine Livingstone at The New Republic reviews the documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time.

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