Starlight Sojourn

This project is a collaborative animation with Chantal Rousseau.

Evening Escapades

This project is a collaborative animation with Chantal Rousseau.

Created from watercolours, fluid acrylic paintings, and digital imagery, Starlight Sojourn features local fish, birds, and animals traversing a dreamlike night-time landscape in the Yukon.

Selected exhibitions and screenings (2023-2024):

  • (S)hiver Arts Festival - site-specific installation on the frozen Yukon River

  • imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival

  • Images Festival

  • North Bay Film Festival

  • Dawson City International Short Film Festival

  • Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre

  • Tombstone Territorial Park Interpretive Centre

  • Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth

  • REGARD, International Short Film Festival - Saguenay

  • Skoden Indigenous Film Festival

  • Montreal Underground Film Festival

  • Vidéo Femmes dans la parc 2023 - Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)

  • Toronto Queer Film Festival

For distribution questions, please contact VideoPool

For animation commissions, please contact starlightsojournstudio@gmail.com

Photo credit: Miriam Behman

An adventurous rabbit undertakes an enchanted evening escapade through a mysterious forest trail. The rabbit encounters dreaming wolves, and other mischievous animals as he navigates a midnight mushroom garden.  

Evening Escapades is a combination of animated elements and Super 8 footage that was shot in and around Ddhäl Ch'èl Cha Nän / Tombstone Territorial Park in Tr’ondëk Hwëtch’in territory in the Yukon, and then processed with plants harvested from the land.

This project was commissioned by the Dënäkär Zho Film Lab and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival (DCISFF) for the 25th anniversary of DCISFF.

For distribution, please contact VideoPool.

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