Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back Braden King, Laura Moya, 1998

As others before them, filmmakers Braden King and Laura Moya went to Dutch Harbor, Alaska the most westerly point of the United States to trace the edge of things and to move beyond paved roads toward blurred horizons of sea, sky and rock. They returned from this Aleutian Island port and its multimillion dollar industry built on the migrations of Bering Sea crab with an edge vision of obsession, decline and elemental beauty. Set to an improvised score of crystalline precision by Michael Krassner and the Boxhead Ensemble, the films images preserve and celebrate the fiercely independent spirit of a completely unique community and landscape in a meditative exploration of the last place to go.