Yasha Aginsky

Birth : 1994-11-22, Detroit, Michigan, USA

History

Documentary filmmaker and film teacher, Yasha Aginsky lives and works in San Francisco. During his career as a director and editor, his work has twice been nominated for Academy Awards (1986, Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and 1991, Forever Activists) and the films he has produced with his wife, Carrie D'Inzillo Aginsky, have won awards in many festivals including Cine International, American Film Festival, National Educational Media Network, Silver Images in the USA and at the Bilan de film ethnographique, Paris. Since 1997, Yasha and Carrie have made Full Circle; Bratsch at Work (Rendez-Vous avec Bratsch); Wine From the Heart (Les Raisins du Coeur); Wine From the Rhone (Vins du Rhone), and Yasha has made Always Been a Rambler (produced by The Arhoolie Foundation). He was also the editor of Outsider, The Life and Art of Judith Scott (Betsy Bayha) and of Granny D Goes to Washington (Alidra Solday).

Profile

Movies

Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

Editor

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing canoes, learn how to follow the stars across the open ocean, and embark upon a 2,000-mile voyage in the wake of their ancestors.

A Matter of Degrees

Additional Editing

Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy.

Cowboy Poets

Editor

American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western Heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history.Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada, Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three working cowboys and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land they love. Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters, Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae, representing three different aspects of the cowboy-poetry tradition.

Educating For Life

Director

An overview of waldorf education from the Sacramento Waldorf School.

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

Editor

1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Diesel

Editor

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.

Our Nazi

Editor

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature Wundkanal (1984), in which true-life ex-SS officer Alfred Filbert, now very old, is ‘put on trial’ for the camera, without him suspecting what is to come or why he is really there. Kramer’s confronting film is an essay about the sticky complicity of everyone present at this event, each bringing their own history, their own political ideology, their own desires to take revenge, to seek redemption or compassion, or just to put their heads down and ‘get the job done’ professionally, or (in the case of Filbert) to be a star, a part of the magnificent, magical, seductive world of cinema, even if it kills him.

Our School

Producer

Presents a glimpse of Waldorf principles through scenes filmed at the San Francisco Waldorf Kindergarten.