"The first time he took me through the old abandoned farmhouse I was blown away," says Australian director Christopher Nelius of the Canadian protagonist in his short documentary of a man roaming the ruins of his family home. "It has cinematic quality in that frigid but beautiful Saskatchewan landscape."

"But it wasn’t until he told me about the Hammerstone—which we originally thought was a tomahawk—that I wanted to make a film here. It sparked my imagination in a slightly childish way. Who may have owned it, dropped it or left it behind? We can never really know because that history is lost in time."

Nelius's film captures the thrill of Canada's snow-swept northern province and rekindles the warmth his protagonist felt for his childhood home by juxtaposing black-and-white personal photographs with contemporary footage of the isolated country house.

"I’ve always been enthralled by history and land. There's an idea that there are generations of people, whether indigenous or European, who share a bond with others who may have come hundreds of years before. And that bond isn’t necessarily political or social but in a way spiritual and intangible."