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Aaron Zeghers
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 …
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Danny · 2019Danny
2019
MovieDocumentary
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.
Memoirs · 2019Memoirs
2019
MovieDocumentary
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."
The Salesman · 2019The Salesman
2019
Movie
"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
Everything Turns... · 2016Everything Turns...
★ 7.02016
Movie
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.
Take Care · 2018Take Care
2018
Movie
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.
Holland, Man. · 2015Holland, Man.
2015
Movie
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.
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