Friday, October 22
7:15pm Willard Straight Theatre
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Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back Friday, October 22 7:15pm Willard Straight Theatre |
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Tickets $4.50/$4.00 Students, Seniors and Children 12 and under
 As
stunning and spare as the landscape it takes as its subject,
this documentary about a remote Alaskan fishing village explores
the bleak solitude of life in a boomtown after the boom. Independent
filmmakers Braden King and Laura Moya consider Dutch Harbor,
once the crab capital of the world, one of the last outposts
of American individualism and the frontier mentality: their black-and-white,
16mm film captures the punishing landscape-its 50 foot waves;
barracks-like housing; massive canning canning factories housing
thousands of cold, bored workers and piles of dead fish-with
a virtuosic and unblinking eye. The soundtrack for the film is
performed by the Chicago-based improvisatory Boxhead Ensemble,
who performed their hypnotic accompaniment on an extensive tour
with the film when it was first released. |