Movies: Aaron Zeghers

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....

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 humorou...

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....

An animated tribute to NHL legend and Manitoban Reggie Leach....

a hibernation meditation; created with the franken-milne strobe-o-scopic LED contact printer on 16mm...

3:20 // Super 8...

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 ...

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 secr...

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

"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 f...

2011; 00h 01m 38s...

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 dissolutio...

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....

The unlikely intersection between an iconic pop star and a similarly iconic friend. In this tell-all interview, Jim Bonilla travels the recesses of the human psyche, through the depths of traumas past, and eventually to the lucid, other side. Bristli...