14 minutes to break your heart over land you'll never see.
This docucumentary by John Brett conveys the impressions of cultural loss felt by an elderly Acadian man living on the south shore of Nova Scotia after his homestead has been deserted.
Cinematography
Bleak Nova Scotia coast captured like a ghost's home movie.
Direction
Brett lets silence do the screaming.
Director
John Brett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Acadian culture faced systematic suppression in 20th-century Nova Scotia; Brett captured the tail end of unbroken French-speaking coastal communities.
John Brett made this between CBC gigs; most prints deteriorated before digitization, making surviving copies precious.
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