Jessy Desjardins
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada | Active: 2012-2022 public ski record | Known for: Judgement Call, Last Call, PARTIMEVERYTHING and SuperUnknown XV | Discipline: street skiing, park and independent film projects
Winter Park’s Last Rail Before the Votes
At Winter Park Resort in Colorado during the 2018 SuperUnknown XV finals, spring sun softened the snow around Level 1’s custom features while Jessy Desjardins worked through a week of filming. The event brought together ten finalists from several countries, but its format relied on footage, peer judgement and the way each skier used unfamiliar rails and jumps. On the closing day, Desjardins put a nose-butter side-on move onto a rail before carrying it to the knuckle. It was one line in a crowded session, but it captured his lane: urban instincts, fast feature reading and the ability to make a rail trick hold attention on camera.
Gatineau Footage Before the Bigger Trips
Level 1 listed Desjardins as a 23-year-old from Gatineau, Quebec, when it announced the SuperUnknown XV roster in 2018. His public ski record was already established. TwoBees Media released a team-rider profile in May 2012, filmed at Mont-Tremblant, placing him in the Quebec park scene before his name reached larger film projects. The early source does not supply a contest history or detailed sponsor record; it confirms a skier developing inside a filmer-driven local crew.
In 2014, TwoBees published The Basics, a short Desjardins edit filmed at Avila after he returned to the East Coast for a week. Quebec and Ottawa-area skiing often depends on short snow windows, smaller park laps and a willingness to switch from resort features to urban snow when conditions align. These early edits show repetition and crew work, rather than a national-team or international-results pathway.
Judgement Call Across Ottawa, Montréal and Québec City
That crew context became clearer in Judgement Call in 2015. TwoBees Media released Desjardins’ full urban segment that November, following the group’s earlier Risky Business project. The film’s stated theme was street skiing and the uncertainty around urban missions: access, snow, energy, injuries and the hours spent searching for a feature that will work. Desjardins had a full part, not only a shared montage, which placed him among the riders shaping the release.
Ottawa, Montréal and Québec City frame the film’s environment. A street shot begins before the skier reaches the rail: the crew needs snow for an in-run and landing, enough speed for first contact, and time before the location stops working. Wallrides, lips, down rails and roof gaps are measured against concrete, darkness and uneven snow. The record does not justify assigning a fixed trick list to Desjardins, but it firmly places him in Quebec’s raw urban-ski lineage.
Last Call Closed One Québec Film Chapter
Last Call, released in December 2017, gave that scene a larger full-length marker. Not So Local and La Gamique made the film with LC Pilon and Laurent Bilodeau, bringing together a broad Quebec cast for a project presented as raw urban skiing. Desjardins appeared alongside Laurent Bilodeau, Nic Chenard, Vince Prévost, Alexis Cayer and Phil Gaucher. The credit puts him inside an established regional line-up rather than on the edge of it.
Full-length films ask riders to build a season’s worth of clips that can stand beside a large crew, not simply land one event run. That means revisiting rail setups, accepting bails, waiting for snow and letting a segment accumulate through the winter. Last Call recorded Desjardins where the TwoBees era, Quebec street culture and a broader independent film network met.
Whistler Winters and a Return East
In 2018, Desjardins spent the winter based around Whistler Blackcomb, then flew back east for nine days of street skiing around Quebec and Ottawa. That trip became PARTIMEVERYTHING Episode 4: Homecoming, filmed with Phil Gaucher and Laurent Bilodeau. The season was split between British Columbia’s park culture and East Coast streets, where snow conditions and local knowledge decide whether a night produces a usable line.
The Homecoming episode did not treat the move west as a break from his original scene. Resort skiing supplies lift-accessed repetitions and park rhythm; city skiing asks for patience around a single obstacle. Desjardins’ archive contains both, but the recurring material remains urban: rails, walls, narrow landings and crews working after the lifts close.
SuperUnknown XV Opened the Colorado Door
Level 1 selected Desjardins for the SuperUnknown XV finals at Winter Park Resort. The field included Remco Kayser, Simon Bartik, Hunter Hess and Joel Magnusson, and the winner was decided through finalist voting rather than a FIS-style judging system. Desjardins did not take the title, which went to Kayser, but the invitation was a genuine step beyond the Canadian regional circuit: he had reached one of freeskiing’s established film-and-session platforms.
LINE Skis published his sixth PARTIMEVERYTHING episode after the finals, framing it as Colorado footage rather than a contest résumé. That distinction fits the event. SuperUnknown values filming, style and how a skier reacts to changing features through the week. Desjardins’ clip-based background had a natural place there because he was already shaping seasons around footage rather than a start list.
The Grand Traverse from Cities to Mountains
PARTIMEVERYTHING became the structure tying his travel and filming together. In March 2018, The Grand Traverse followed Desjardins and Philippe Clairoux on a road trip across the United States, looking for skiing in both cities and mountains. One month later, Sea to Sky documented their British Columbia period after that drive, combining skiing and surfing rather than presenting the trip as a standard winter training block.
The series recorded the logistics around the skiing: distance between spots, changes in terrain and crew decisions when a day pivoted from a resort lap to an urban setup. A road project asks a skier to preserve energy for repeated attempts and keep the skiing readable when the background changes. PARTIMEVERYTHING carried Desjardins’ name and became the clearest catalogue for the period when Quebec street skiing connected with the West Coast and the American road network.
NOSTALGIE Joined Québec to Copenhagen
March 2020 brought PARTIMEVERYTHING - NOSTALGIE, described by its crew as the final urban movie from the project. Desjardins shared credits with Philippe Clairoux, Phil Gaucher, Jakob Ebskamp, Anthony Patry and Dane Kirk. The line-up joined Quebec riders with Ebskamp’s Danish street-ski connection, creating a Canadian-European crew context instead of a purely local edit.
A 2020 LINE post highlighted Desjardins on a roof-gap-to-wallride using a LINE Blend in the film. That gives a specific technical reference without inflating one clip into a whole style. A roof gap demands committed speed, a controlled wall contact and a landing that stays aligned for the next movement. That kind of feature is hard to reproduce in a park because the geometry was never built for skis; the approach, snow and camera placement all need to agree.
Peace Lily and the Film-First Record
A later confirmed ski-film credit is Peace Lily, released in 2022 by Dylan Siggers and Jake Strassman. The film moved between Canadian street spots, powder booters and the LINE Team Week at Alaïa Parks, with Desjardins listed among the additional skiers. It was not a solo part or a named project lead, but it confirms his link to Canadian ski-film production after NOSTALGIE.
The available archive supports a film-first reading: a 2012 team profile, the 2015 Judgement Call segment, Last Call, a SuperUnknown XV final, road-based PARTIMEVERYTHING episodes, NOSTALGIE and Peace Lily. It does not provide a verified World Cup, Olympic or X Games record, and none should be added. The documented archive reviewed here closes with a 2022 Peace Lily credit. His contribution is continuity between Gatineau, Quebec, Whistler, Winter Park, city rails and crews who treated filming as part of the skiing itself.
