Optimism · 2018

Optimism

Deborah Stratman · 15 min · Canada

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

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Production companies

Pythagoras Film

Cast

• John Steins

• Steven Badgett

• Charles Stankievech

• Simon Mason-Wood

• Lance Blomgren

• Eldo Enns