Animations

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Evening Escapades

Starlight Sojourn Studios – Darcy Tara McDiarmid & Chantal Rousseau, 2024

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 film was commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.

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River Revelations

Starlight Sojourn Studios – Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau, 2024

Along a sacred river’s edge, enchanted animals navigate mysterious landscapes along a trail from deep time. Starlight and lightening 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

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Starlight Sojourn

Starlight Sojourn Studios – Darcy Tara McDiarmid & Chantal Rousseau, 2023

Created from watercolours, fluid acrylic paintings, and digital imagery, this animation features local fish, birds, and animals traversing a dreamlike night-time landscape in the Yukon. At times the animals convey a sorrowful transition between our world and the spirit world, which reflects upon the current state of species diversity risk and loss.

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Willow Ptarmigan

Chantal Rousseau, 2024

Ravens at Quigley Landfill

Chantal Rousseau, 2024