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Aaron Zeghers

History

Aaron Zeghers is a Canadian experimental and documentary filmmaker and current director of the Gimli Film Festival. Zeghers primarily works as an experimental filmmaker, utilizing analog formats and obsolete technologies, in-camera effects, various types of animation and other experimental techniques to create his films and expanded cinema performances. Zeghers' films have screened at festivals and venues around the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Festivales du Buenos Aires Argentina (BAFICI), Festival du nouveau cinéma, DOXA Film Festival, and New York's Mono No Aware. In the past year Zeghers has also toured widely with his work, performing his expanded cinema work in Rotterdam, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Vancouver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Toronto and more. As a film programmer, Zeghers is the founder of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and the current Festival Director for the Gimli Film Festival, Winnipeg's only international film festival and the largest rural film festival in Canada.

Movies

Director

"I never dreamt that I'd be selling cars when I started it. It just gradually happened... I guess I never thought of anything else." A short film I made because filmmaking can still be something you do in a day that's fun and honest and simple and for someone you love. For George. - AZ

We live with stories. And it's hard for us to give up on these stories, which provide us our identity, a way of understanding ourselves. Reflections from three successive generations are dusted off and presented as remaining fragments. An attempt to archive thoughts on familial history, narrative traditions, human perception and "the story" from known and unknown sources. "There is history behind it and the history becomes the story and the story becomes the pattern and the pattern becomes rigidity."

Screenplay

We live with stories. And it's hard for us to give up on these stories, which provide us our identity, a way of understanding ourselves. Reflections from three successive generations are dusted off and presented as remaining fragments. An attempt to archive thoughts on familial history, narrative traditions, human perception and "the story" from known and unknown sources. "There is history behind it and the history becomes the story and the story becomes the pattern and the pattern becomes rigidity."

Cinematography

We live with stories. And it's hard for us to give up on these stories, which provide us our identity, a way of understanding ourselves. Reflections from three successive generations are dusted off and presented as remaining fragments. An attempt to archive thoughts on familial history, narrative traditions, human perception and "the story" from known and unknown sources. "There is history behind it and the history becomes the story and the story becomes the pattern and the pattern becomes rigidity."

Director

We live with stories. And it's hard for us to give up on these stories, which provide us our identity, a way of understanding ourselves. Reflections from three successive generations are dusted off and presented as remaining fragments. An attempt to archive thoughts on familial history, narrative traditions, human perception and "the story" from known and unknown sources. "There is history behind it and the history becomes the story and the story becomes the pattern and the pattern becomes rigidity."

Director

After being diagnosed with leukemia in 1993, Danny picks up a camcorder and begins to make a film. What comes forth is a sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-heartbreaking found footage film about disease, mental illness, manhood, and the meaning of life.

Director

Amidst the frantic flurry of moving day, a film. Shirking our responsibilities until the bitter end, this bittersweet and fond farewell to an apartment well-lived and a job well-done. Caretakers of the Year. Shot in a single take on Super 8.

Everything Turns...

Everything Turns...

Director

Everything Turns... is an open investigation into number mythology on Super-8 film. Long exposures and various animation techniques process and restructure the science behind it. This results in a type of almanac of time, space and place that humorously references Hans Richter.

Director

As two growing years pass, Don Zeghers - farmer from Holland, Manitoba - phases out his multi-generational family farm. With experimental photography on Super 8, 16mm and digital mediums, his son Aaron Zeghers follows this life change. The dissolution of the family farm is seen both intimately but also as a microcosm of the modern industrialized world. Nature is contrasted with industrial might in this sentimental and existential portrait of one's own family.

Of Truth and Magic

Of Truth and Magic

Cinematography

When the secret Department of Unusual Occurrences (DUO) discovers the case files of a missing agent, it is up to the chief of the department and Agent W to discover the truth about Agent Y's disappearance. Was she on the verge of discovering the secrets of self proclaimed 'true magician' Autumn Greywooly? Is Autumn Greywooly all that he claims to be? Did he have anything to do with the vanishing of Agent Y? An adventure into the realm of the unexplained!

11 Parking Lots + One Gradual Sunset

11 Parking Lots + One Gradual Sunset

Director

Both beauty and destruction. Both homage and critique. Sincere insincerity amidst the concrete jungle.

The Story of Thomas Edison

The Story of Thomas Edison

Director

A film about the childhood heroes you so admired, and now don't speak to. Partially hand-processed and all optically printed, the Story of Thomas Edison is a mélange of audio bites that form a libelous biography of a famous inventor.

The Riverton Rifle

The Riverton Rifle

Camera Operator

An animated tribute to NHL legend and Manitoban Reggie Leach.

The Riverton Rifle

The Riverton Rifle

Editor

An animated tribute to NHL legend and Manitoban Reggie Leach.