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2018•15 min•Documentary
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Charles Stankievech
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Simon Mason-Wood
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Lance Blomgren
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Eldo Enns

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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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