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Rumination

World Premiere

At night, a woman’s mind wanders as she chops firewood.

 

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Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

Without dialogue

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4 min

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Credits

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Ashleigh Vaillancourt

Director

Ashleigh Vaillancourt headshot, Rumination director

Ashleigh Vaillancourt

Ashleigh Vaillancourt is a multimedia artist and filmmaker working on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam)̓ Nation (Vancouver, Canada). She studied art and animation at Emily Carr University, and has shown her films and digital projections in film festivals and galleries internationally. Her work explores themes of personal resilience and social empathy, as well as the interplay of analog painting and generative digital art.