Aaron Zeghers Retrospective 

April 8th, 2023
Starts at 7 PM
Festival Hall (1215 10 Ave SE, Calgary)

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Aaron Zeghers is a Canadian filmmaker, based in rural Manitoba.

Zeghers works primarily as an experimental and non-fiction filmmaker, utilizing found images and histories, analog formats and obsolete technologies. His form-bending documentaries and expanded cinema performances blend the formally experimental with the intimately personal.

Zeghers’ films have screened at festivals and venues around the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Vancouver IFF, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Festival du nouveau cinéma, DOXA Film Festival, and New York’s Mono No Aware. 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 former Festival Director for the Gimli Film Festival, Manitoba’s largest film festival.

Program:

Holland, Man. (19min) - *live*
The Story of Thomas Edison (5min)
I See a Light (2min)
Living on the Edge (3.5min)
The Salesman (3.5min)
In Stasis (3min)
11 Parking Lots + One Gradual Sunset (8.5min)
Everything Turns... (12min) - *live*