Aaron Zeghers

Personal Info

Known For Director

Aaron Zeghers

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

My Friend Jim

as Director

2019
Danny

as Director

2019
Memoirs

as Director

2019
The Salesman

as Director

2018
Take Care

as Director

2016
2015
Holland, Man.

as Director

2013
Living on the Edge

as Director

2012
in stasis

as Director

2011
I See a Light

as Director

Crew

2019
Memoirs

as Cinematography

2014
Of Truth and Magic

as Cinematography

Editor

2011

Camera

2011
The Riverton Rifle

as Camera Operator

Writer

2019
Memoirs

as Screenplay

Actor