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Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past

Original title: Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past

Year

1992

Rating

★ 7.0/10

Runtime

50 min

Genres

Documentary

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.

Cast: Rick Hancox