Starlight Sojourn
Starlight Sojourn Studios production, 2023
River Revelations
Starlight Sojourn Studios production, 2024
Evening Escapades
Starlight Sojourn Studios production, 2024
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:
(S)hiver Arts Festival - site-specific installation on the frozen Yukon River
imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival
Images Festival
Irish Film Institute - Family Fest 2024
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
WNDX Festival of Moving Image
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
Montreal Underground Film Festival
Vidéo Femmes dans la parc 2023 - Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)
Toronto Queer Film Festival
Asinabka Festival
Cloud Factory ARC – Snow Screening
Toronto Outdoor Picture Show
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Photo credit: Miriam Behman
Along a sacred river’s edge, enchanted animals navigate mysterious landscapes along a trail from deep time. Starlight and lightning reveal the interchange of ancient peoples and the animals that have the care of the earth. As the animals traverse through the seasons of life, they learn that knowledge is power and that the land still speaks to us. The land still speaks to us!
Created for Illuminating Worldviews
Selected exhibitions, screenings and awards:
Dawson City International Short Film Festival - Made in the Yukon (MITY) Professional Award
Available Light Film Festival
Dave Barber Cinematheque
Sommets du cinéma d'animation
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For nature-based animation commissions, please contact Starlight Sojourn Studios.
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.
Selected exhibitions and screenings:
Kassel Documentary Film Festival
Dawson City International Short Film Festival
Yukon Riverside Arts Festival
Dave Barber Cinematheque
Available Light Film Festival
REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival
Distribution: please contact VideoPool