Argentum

Blending myth and record as told through a series of dioramas, Argentum is a stop-motion animation that retells the tragedy of Patrick O’Brien, the youngest son of turn-of-the-century Canadian railroad and mining magnate M.J. O’Brien. Set in the harsh frontier reality of 1913 Cobalt, Ontario during the peak of the Cobalt Silver Rush, the film is loosely based on the Brother’s Grimm fairy tale, ‘Iron John’.

Concept Illustration by John Courtney Little.

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