Tourism requires a locale in which the past can be presented as a marketable and thoroughly digestible commodity. In Stefaan Decostere's Travelogue Four: Coming From the Wrong Side, Banff, jewel of the Canadian Rockies, provides the sanitized backdrop of necessary nostalgia. As Decostere states: "Like television, tourist vistas are packaged and presented to create unfulfilled desire; both present the future through static interpretations of what has passed." Anything but static, Travelogue Four (56 mins) is a visually accelerating meditation on the colonized landscape. How culture is frozen, then selectively (re)presented for instant touristic consumption is illustrated in Decostere's exquisite manipulation of the sights around Banff. Bus tours, alpine hotels, shopping malls, theme parks, all conspire in an ecstatic display of a past that never truly existed. The exhaustion of the present is examined in Tom Sherman and Jean Piche's Motion Pictures at English Bay (1990, 6 mins). Recorded from a 21st-floor balcony overlooking Vancouver, this nervewracking work finds the attendant landscape too disturbing to depict.-Steve Seid