Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past (1992)

• 70%
• 1992
• Documentary
• Rick Hancox

A wryly humorous excavation of history and personal memory, Moose Jaw is a reflexive view of the filmmaker's childhood town in the Canadian west, as a mythic symbol of nation-building and the 'manifest destiny' of North America. With its revitalization motto, 'There's a Future in Our past," this post-colonial crash site ingests the filmmaker in its museumizing process as a once thriving rail head on the margins of (British) Empire.