Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

This film explores the essence of an exotic locale - in this case an icy, remote Alaskan fishing town. Beautifully composed black and white Super 8 visuals, deadpan oral histories, and a contemplative soundtrack all come together to communicate viscerally what life is like on an ice-encrusted lobster boat, or along a frozen coast where the local Inuit language lacks words for most colors. Austere and haunting, 'Dutch Harbor' makes one feel the danger, the cold, and the beauty of its subject - an experience not to be missed.