Picturing the Yukon

Providing a malleable definition for Yukon, visually encapsulating general and particular points of view representing myriad themes and subjective panoramas, Picturing the Yukon juxtaposes the traditional with the contemporary, the timeless with the ephemeral, introducing mythical reminiscences which qualify practical responses, historical reflections which quantify meteorological exceptions, lush narratives which highlight the fragility of fertile soundscapes, unacceptable solutions for problematic predicaments, whimsical takes on issues of race, an introductory tour of an iconic Canadian town, haunting conclusions gathered from plasticine neuroses, acute warm and friendly manifestations concerning sombre subliminal demarcations, coalesced environmental inspirations, and accidental transformational investigations.

A spur of the moment idea can forge something everlasting. Pervasive themes can particularize fluctuating universal sentiments. A myth within a myth within a myth.

9 short films presented in one disc by the Yukon Film Society, Picturing the Yukon stretches beyond the elastic boundaries harnessed within and without each of its individual visions.

A mosaic from which distinct observations clarifying or obscuring resonant attempts at delineating a multidimensional cultural wilderness can be detached, categorized, and rematerialized. From such detached categorical rematerializations a governing conception can be mercurially entrusted to provide a practical ideological motivation for a moment of general reflection.