'Welcome to Pine Point' and small town memories

This look at memory, identity, the effects of time and change and how communities are built, destroyed an yet sustained is truly amazing - an interactive photo album, funny and moving. Click on the image below to be taken to the National Film Board of Canada's website where you can watch, interact with, and think on The Goggles' Welcome to Pine Point while you enjoy the awesome soundtrack by The Besnard Lakes.

Welcome to Pine Point

'Memory is funny. 

Specific and vague.

Visceral and unreliable.

Truth and Fiction.

From the moment an event occurs it is simplified and purified in memory. 

We shave off the rough edges and what happened becomes a story or even, over time, a legend.

If we're not careful though, we grind it down to raw superlatives with none of the banalities or compications that make truth feel true.

So often memory depends on who we need to be at the moment of remembrance.

Sometimes it's better to believe that we accomplished the impossible' - The Goggles