A film archive discovered in 1978 in a small Canadian town called Dawson City is an occasion for director Bill Morrison to unveil multiple histories. On one hand, the focus is on the history of the town, whose gold reserves enriched many families at the end of the 19th century (including Donald Trump’s great-grandfathers). On the other hand, parallel to this, it follows the exciting story of thousands of reels of film – many of them considered lost forever – which, in a period when the concept of “film archive” wasn’t still born, were saved through burial, from World War Two bombardments. Morrison builds, as usual, a hypnotic atmosphere, juxtaposing all kinds of collages of moving images, some in advanced states of decay but visually spectacular, with a sound track composed by Alex Somers.