Rick Hancox Trailers

Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past TrailerHome for Christmas Trailer

Hancox, Richard, "Rick," filmmaker, film teacher, musician (born in Toronto, January 1, 1946). Hancox grew up in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. All three locations have informed his poetic and finely crafted experimental documentaries, which fuse personal landscapes with issues of time, memory and history. Hancox was introduced to film at the University of Prince Edward Island by American documentary filmmaker George Semsel. He went on to do graduate work in film and photography at New York University and at Ohio University, where he earned an MFA in film in 1973. During that period his short films won five major awards in the Canadian Student Film Festival. After working briefly in New York as an independent filmmaker, Hancox went on to teach film at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont (1973-85). There he influenced a generation of Canadian independent filmmakers including the documentarians Holly Dale and Janis Cole and experimental filmmakers such as Richard Kerr, Philip Hoffman, Michael Hoolboom and others, who, along with Hancox, have been recognized as belonging to a movement in Canadian experimental film that is referred to as the "escarpment school" - named after the geological feature, the Niagara Escarpment. Hancox left Sheridan to teach in the Communication Studies Department of Concordia University in Montréal. Hancox often blends the poetic with the cinematic as in the trilogy of "poetry films" Waterworx (1982), Landfall (1983) and Beach Events (1985). He is also known for autobiographical documentaries best illustrated by Home for Christmas (1978). Moose Jaw (1992), which was recognized in Take One magazine as one of the ten best films ever made in Canada, marks a new direction for Hancox. Like all his best work, Moose Jaw charges the term "landscape" with extra meaning. His work demonstrates, through the cinematic image, how personal memory is mediated by social and historical contexts.

Most Popular Rick Hancox Trailers

Total trailers found: 11

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

15 September 1992

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.

I, A Dog Trailer (1970)

11 March 1970

An autobiographical film ballad about dodging dog dung in New York City.

Landfall Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

Landfall was shot in Prince Edward Island, near the family home on the Northumberland Strait. The original footage, shot in 1974, was a kind of interactive, camera “dance” with the environment.

Next to Me Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Using fragmented personal imagery, "Next to Me" renders Cartier-Bresson's theory of the "decisive moment" fully in cinematic terms.

Waterworx (A Clear Day and No Memories) Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

The waterworks in the beaches area of Toronto is the source of an image, perhaps eidetic, from my early childhood.

September 15 Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

Impressions of a marriage on the lakeshore, the lapping of water, and the mediation of a movie camera.

House Movie Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

The visual ‘documentary’ material in House Movie comprises essentially ‘home movie’ footage. While the great majority of this material was staged, re-enacted, or otherwise planned in advance, it is documentary inasmuch as the ‘actors’ play themselves and participate in familiar events in a familiar setting which does not represent, but is, their actuality.

Tall Dark Stranger Trailer (1970)

30 September 1970

A drug encounter between a P.E.I. farmer and a hippie from "Upper Canada" who thinks he's Christ.

Beach Events Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

This film completes a trilogy of landscape/poetry films, which include “Waterworx” (1982) and “Landfall” (1983), and was shot near the family home on the Northumberland Strait in Prince Edward Island.

Home for Christmas Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

"Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and autobiographical filmmaking are thrown into question.

Wild Sync Trailer (1973)

30 May 1973

A restless instructional film, teaching his audience about impromptu sound synchronization, the use of cutaway shots and the total destruction of the clapper board.