A ghost town breathes again as survivors return to bury what was stolen.
In 1999, Innu community members who, 40 years previously, had been forcibly relocated from their remote northern region of Labrador to established settlements in the province, return to Hebron to reminisce and reckon with the destructive impact the relocation had on their traditional ways of life and Indigenous identity. This film serves as a companion piece to Carol Brice Bennett’s book "IkKaumajannik Piusivinnik – Reconciling With Memories," and stands as the only known audio-visual document of the reunion of a resettled community in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Direction
Markham lets elders speak; no narrator interrupts.
Practical Effects
Crumbling buildings as silent witnesses to state violence.
Director
Nigel Markham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hebron was one of over 100 Newfoundland and Labrador communities forcibly resettled under federal-provincial agreements; most were never documented on film.
The Innu word 'Piusivinnik' in the companion book title roughly translates to 'dreaming while awake'—the film itself operates in this liminal, haunted register.
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