Local Sightings 2017 – Grubstake Remix
About
Grubstake Remix is a unique cinema hybrid that crosses between the worlds of performance documentary and narrative fiction. The actors and musicians perform live with the original silent film in a redux where the on-screen characters are speaking and thinking in Shakespearean English and French.
The original 1923 silent film The Grub-Stake is a ‘Northwoods melodrama’ written, produced by and starring Canadian cinema icon, Nell Shipman. A young woman [Faith] goes north to the Klondike to seek her fortune only to be deceived and manipulated in a world of men. When Faith discovers that she has been brought to Dawson City to be sold into prostitution by the man who has promised to marry her, she escapes into the bush with a team of sled dogs, her ailing father, and a half-wit prospector where she will lead a fight against her wrongful suitor and his henchmen.
