Aaron Zeghers
Directing
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.
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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.
Known for
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- 2019The Salesman Director
- 2019Memoirs Director, Cinematography, Screenplay
- 2019Danny Director
- 2018Take Care Director
- 2016Everything Turns... Director
- 2015Holland, Man. Director
- 2014Of Truth and Magic Cinematography
- 201411 Parking Lots + One Gradual Sunset Director
- 2013Living on the Edge Director
- 2012in stasis