Moose Jaw Theres a Future in Our Past

A wryly humorous excavation of history and personal memory Moose Jaw is a reflexive view of the filmmakers childhood town in the Canadian west as a mythic symbol of nationbuilding and the manifest destiny of North America With its revitalization motto Theres a Future in Our past this postcolonial crash site ingests the filmmaker in its museumizing process as a once thriving rail head on the margins of British Empire