AARON ZEGHERS

Filmography

My Friend Jim | Short Doc | Video | 11min | 2021

> 2021 Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival | Winnipeg, Canada
*winner, “Audience Choice Award” | Gimme 10 in 30 Film Commission Project

Memoirs | Short Doc | 16mm | 10min | 2019

> 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival | Canada
> 2019 Festival du nouveau cinéma | Montreal, Canada
> 2020 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
> 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI, USA
> 2020 Onion City Film Festival | Chicago, IL, USA
> 2020 Chicago Underground Film Festival | Chicago, IL, USA
> 2020 Available Light Film Festival | Whitehorse, YK, Canada
> 2020 RPM Film Festival | Boston, MA, USA
> 2020 Cosmic Rays Film Festival | Chapel Hill, NC, USA
> 2020 That One Film Festival | Muncie, IN, USA
> 2020 Visions | Montreal, QC, CA
> 2020 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
> 2019 Gimme Some Truth Doc Fest | Winnipeg, MB

DANNY | Colour | VHS | 2018 | 60min

> 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest | Sheffield, UK
> 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival | Canada
> 2019 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
*winner, “Best Feature Film Award” in the Avant-Garde & Genre Competition
> 2020 European Media Arts Festival | Osnabrück, Germany
> 2020 VIDEONALE.scope #8 | Köln, Germany
> 2020 Available Light Film Festival | Whitehorse, YK, Canada
> 2019 Eastern Oregon Film Festival | La Grande, Oregon
> 2019 WNDX Festival of Moving Image | Winnipeg, Canada
> 2019 Transcinema International Film Festival | Lima, Peru
> 2019 Cámara Lúcida Encuentros Cinematográficos | Cuenca, Ecuador
> 2019 Bogotá International Documentary film Festival - MIDBO | Bogotá, Columbia

Shepard's Tone(s) | Colour | 16mm, 35mm | 2018 | 5min

> 2018 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *

Everything Turns… | Colour | Super 8 | 2017

* = live performance

> 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL *
> 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
> 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Fest | Vancouver, CA *
> 2016 Festival du nouvea cinéma | Montreal, CA
> 2017 Artifact Film Festival | Calgary, CA
-Winner of “Best Super 8 Film” Award
> 2017 WNDX Festival of Moving Image | Winnipeg, MB *
> 2017 Athens Film & Video Festival | Athens, USA
> 2017 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *
> 2017 Festival of Cinematic, Audio & Visual Experimentation | Minneapolis, USA *
> 2017 Hamburg Intl. Short Film Fest | Hamburg, DE
> 2017 Festival Images Contre Nature | Marseille, FR
> 2017 Microscope Gallery screening | Brooklyn, NY *
> 2017 Festival IVAHM | Madrid, ES
> 2017 Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages | Bruxelles, BE
> 2017 Moviate Film Festival | Harrisburg, PA
> 2017 Dawson City Short Film Fest | Dawson City, CA
> 2017 FRACTO Festival | Berlin, DE
> 2017 Best of the $100 Film Festival at Cineworks | Vancouver, CA
> 2017 Short Circuit | Brighton, UK
> 2017 Video! Video! Zine | Chicago, IL
> 2016 Antimatter [media art] | Victoria, CA
> 2016 Nightengale Theatre screening | Chicago, USA
> 2016 Microlights Cinema screening | Milwaukee, USA
> 2016 Cellular Cinema screening | Minneapolis, USA
> 2016 8 Fest Fundraiser screening | Toronto, CA

Holland, Man. | Colour | 16mm, Super8, Digital | Oct 2015

* = live performance

> 2015 Mono No Aware | Brooklyn, NY *
> 2015 Festival du nouveau cinéma | Montreal, QC
> 2016 DOXA Film Fest | Vancouver, BC
> 2016 Milwaukee U.F.F. | Milwaukee, WI *
---->Awarded 'Honourable Mention' by Jury
> 2016 Montreal U.F.F. | Montreal, QC
---->Awarded '2nd Place Prize' by Jury
> 2016 Dawson City Film Festival | Dawson City, YT
> 2016 Nightengale Theatre screening | Chicago, USA*
> 2016 London Ontario Media Arts Assoc. screening | London, ON*
> 2016 Cellular Cinema screening | Minneapolis, USA*
> 2016 The 8 Fest, 8x8 screening | Toronto, ON*
> 2015 Other Cinema Screening | San Francisco, USA *
> 2015 Antimatter [Media Art] | Victoria, BC *
> 2015 Echo Park Film Center Screening | L.A., USA *
> 2015 Black Hole Cinema screening | Oakland, USA *
> 2016 Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham, UK
> 2016 Edge of Frame Programme 1 | London, UK
> 2016 Beyond the Perimeter screening | Holland, Manitoba*
> 2016 Winnipeg U.F.F. fundraiser | Winnipeg, MB

2 pour 5$ | collab. w/ Leslie Supnet & Clint Enns | Colour | Super 8 | Feb 2015
> 2015 Montreal Underground Film Fest | Montreal, QC
> 2015 Antimatter [Media Art] | Victoria, BC

Offsales | collab. w/ Leslie Supnet & Clint Enns | Colour | Super 8 | Feb 2015
> 2015 The 8 Fest | Toronto, ON

Conspiracy | 6 min | Digital Video (Selectavision) | Colour | Stereo | June 2014
> 2015 Montreal Underground Film Fest | Montreal, QC
>2015 Le Festival International des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux | Paris, France
> 2015 Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham, UK
> 2015 WNDX Film Fest | Winnipeg, MB
>2014 Lo-fi Sci-fi screening | Other Cinema | San Francisco, CA
> 2014 Antimatter Media Art | Victoria, BC, Canada
> 2014 Transient Visions | Johnson City, NY
> 2014 Video Pool Members’ Screening | Winnipeg, MB

11 Parking Lots and One Gradual Sunset | 8:28 | Super 16mm | Colour | Stereo | March 2014
> 2015 Moving | Kyoto, Japan
> 2014 Transient Visions | Johnson City, NY
> 2014 DOXA Doc Fest | Vancouver, BC
> 2014 Winnipeg Handshake | Curated by Matt Rankin | Concorida University, Montreal, QC
> 2014 Visions Experimental Doc Series | Montreal, QC
> 2014 Tunnelvision at Architecture Fringe Fest | Winnipeg, MB

Fall 1 & 2 | 50 sec | 16mm | Colour | Silent |
> 2014 Milwaukee U.F.F. | Milwaukee, USA
> 2014 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Melbourne, Australia
> 2014 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Perth, Australia
> 2014 Strange Beauty Film Fest | Durham, NC
> 2015 Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, New Mexico

Living on the Edge | 3:25 | Experimental | Super 8 | Colour | Sound | Jan 2013
> 2014 Berlin Intl. Director's Lounge | Berlin
> 2014 The 8 Fest | Toronto, ON
>2013 Montreal U. F. F. | Montreal, QC
*awarded the Ex-aequo Prize
>2013 West Virginia Film Festival | Morgantown, WV
*award for best “re-vision” theme work
> 2015 Imagine Science Film Festival | New York, NY
> 2014 Club Ex screening | Korean Film Archive | Seoul, Korea
>2014 Sight Unseen Open Call | Baltimore, ML
>2014 Exuberant Politics | Iowa City Public Library
>2014 Winnipeg Handshake | Curated by Matt Rankin | Concorida University, Montreal, QC
>2013 South Texas Underground Film Fest | Corpus Christi, TX
>2013 Antimatter Media Art Festival | Victoria, BC
> 2013 Festival Images Contre Nature 2013 | Marseille, France
> 2013 Video Art Festival Miden | Kalamata, Greece
>2013 Haverhill Exp. Film Fest | Haverhill, MA, USA
>2013 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Melbourne, AUS
>2013 Cinematic Visions from Winnipeg, MB | Toronto, ON
>2013 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC, USA
((in stasis)) – Blue Film 2 | 2:45 | 16mm | Colour | Sound | Dec 2013
>2013 Videoholica | Varna, Bulgaria
*awarded as a “finalist”
>2013 Videoholica Touring Program | Varna, Bulgaria
>2013 South Texas Underground Film Fest | Corpus Christi, TX
>2013 Antimatter Media Art Festival | Victoria, BC
>2013 Montreal U.F.F. | Montral, QC, CAN
>2013 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest. | Melbourne, AUS
>2013 $100 Film Festival | Calgary, AB
>2013 Frames Per Second Screening | Plug Projects | Kansas City, MO

I See a Light | 1:30 | DV | Colour | Sound | Sept 2012
> 2014 Films from the Attic | New York, NY
> 2013 Video Art Festival Miden | Kalamata, Greece
> 2013 Square Pegs screening at Modern Fuel | Kingston, ON
> 2013 Fargo Film Festival | 2-minute Movie contest | Fargo, ND
>2012 Oblò Film Festival | Lausanne, Switzerland
>2012 Arizona Underground Film Festival | Tucson, AZ
>2012 WNDX Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB
> 2012 Cinema Minima 2012 | Chicago, IL
>2012 Gimli Film Festival | Gimli, MB
>2012 Suoni per il Popolo Festival‏ | Montreal, QC
>2012 Video Pool Meets McLuhan and Flusser Screening | Winnipeg, MB
>2012 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival | Milwaukee, WI
>2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival | Montreal, CA
>2012 TromaDance Film Festival | Long Island City, NY
>2012 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC
>2012 Art’s Birthday Open Call | Ace Art | Winnipeg, MB
>2011 Leeds International Film Festival | Leeds, UK
>2011 Colour Out of Space Film Festival | Brighton, UK

The Story of Thomas Edison | 5:00 | Experimental Documentary | 16mm | Colour | Sound | Feb 2011
>2012 Bent Light Program (curated by Leslie Supnet) | PAVED Arts | Saskatoon, SK
>2012 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival | Hawick, Scottish Borders, UK
>2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival | Montreal, QC
>2012 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival | Milwaukee, WI
>2012 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC
>2011 Distilled Motion Series with Magic Lantern Cinema | Providence, RI
>2011 Distilled Motion Series with the Radon Lake Collective | Cambridge, MA
>2011 Colour Out of Space Film Festival | Brighton, UK
>2011 Flicker Spokane Film Festival | Spokane, WA
>2011 WNDX Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB
>2011 Gimli Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB

Chaos Theory | 3:20 | Experimental Narrative | Super 8 | Colour | Sound | 2011
>2011 Prairie Scene (curated by Alex Rogalski) | National Arts Centre | Ottawa, ON
>2011 The 8 Fest | Toronto, ON
>2011 Flicker Spokane Film Festival | Spokane, WA
>2011 WNDX One Take Super 8 Anniversary DVD | Winnipeg, MB

Film Programming

2018-Present | Collective Member | The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
2013-17 | Co-Founder and Programmer | The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
2017-21 | Festival Director | Gimli Film Festival
2014-17 | Senior Film Programmer | The Gimli Film Festival

2020-22 | Director | Manitoba Home Movie Archive (a project of the Gimli Film Festival)
2012-17 | Co-Founder and Programmer | Open City Cinema (ongoing film screening series)
2015 | Curator of Winnipeg Handshake Series : cinematic exchanges between distant cities | OCC
2015 | Curator of Canadian Club: a 4-part series of classic Canuck cinema | Open City Cinema
2015 | Curator of Black Christmas | Open City Cinema
2014 | Curator of Cinema in Pictures | Open City Cinema + Flash Photographic Festival
2014 | Curator of Downtime by Greg Hanec | Open City Cinema
2014 | Curator of Our Nixon | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Stephen Broomer vs. Toronto screening | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Lines of Perspective short film program | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Leviathan | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Barry Doupé’s The Colours that Combine to Make White are Important | OCC
2013 | Curator of Denis Côté’s Bestiaire and Shorts | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Scientific Psychedelia | The Winnipeg Folk Fest
2012 | Co-Curator of Don Hertzfeldt’s “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” | Open City Cinema
2012 | Curator of a Nuit Blanche public film exhibit outside the Winnipeg Art Gallery | Collaboration with RAW Gallery
2012 | Curator of “Human Highway” | Open City Cinema Screening
2012 | Curator of Kubasa in a Glass | Open City Cinema Screening
2012 | Curator of Spiritual Psychedelia | Winnipeg Folk Fest!
2012 | Curator of “Soda_Jerk’s Hollywood Burn and local found footage shorts” | Open City Cinema Screening at RAW Gallery
2012 | Curator of “The Selected Works of Jodie Mack” | Cineflyer

Awards
'Best Feature Film Award' in the Avant-Garde & Genre Competition | BAFICI | 2019
Hot House Award | Province of Manitoba & Winnipeg Film Group | 2019
“Audience Choice Award” | Gimme 10 in 30 Film Commission Project | 2021
Winner of “Best Super 8 Film” Award | Artifact Film Festival | 2017
'Honourable Mention' from the Jury | Milwaukee UFF | 2016
'2nd Place Prize' by Jury | Montreal UFF | 2016
Ex-aequo Prize | Montreal Underground Film Fest | 2012
Best “Re-vision” theme film for Living on the Edge | West Virginia Short Film Fest 2013
Awarded as a "Finalist" | Videoholica | Varna, Bulgaria| 2013
Voted #1 Visual Artist | Uptown Reader’s Poll | 2012

Affiliations
2012 - present | Winnipeg Underground Film Festival collective member
2020 - present | Independent Media Arts Alliance | Board President
2008 - present | The Winnipeg Film Group member
2011 – present | Video Pool Media Arts Centre member
2012 - present | Platform member