

Two friends, one road, countless ways the soul travels through time.
This is a travelogue of sorts, as two friends whose lives intersect and diverge, look at the road and the vessels we use as means to traverse landscapes both contemporary and historical, and of the spirit and of the body.
Direction
Hopinka's poetic, non-linear Indigenous filmmaking at its most distilled.
Cinematography
Stunning landscapes that feel like memory itself.

Director
Sky Hopinka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hopinka is a Ho-Chunk/Pechanga Band of Luiseño artist whose work deliberately resists ethnographic documentary traditions imposed on Indigenous filmmakers.
The title references a line from a Gerald Vizenor poem about survivance—the active presence of Indigenous stories beyond victim narratives.
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