HOLLAND, MAN. // 21 min / 16mm, S8 & HD Video / experimental doc
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 and the dissolution of the family farm - perhaps a microcosm of the modern industrialized world. Nature is contrasted with industrial might in this sentimental and existential portrait of one's own family.
** presented as a single channel OR expanded cinema piece with live sound and projection.
SCREENINGS:
> 2015 Festival du nouveau cinema | Montreal, QC
> 2016 DOXA Film Fest | Vancouver, BC
> 2015 Mono No Aware | Broolyn, NY *
> 2016 Milwaukee U.F.F. | Milwaukee, WI *
-Awarded ‘Honourable Mention’ by Jury
> 2016 Montreal Underground Film Fest
-Awarded '2nd Place Prize' by Jury
> 2016 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *
> 2015 Antimatter [Media Art] | Victoria, BC *
> 2016 Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham, UK
> 2015 Echo Park Film Center Screening | L.A., USA *
> 2015 Other Cinema Screening | San Francisco, USA *
> 2016 Nightengale Theatre screening | Chicago, USA*
> 2016 Cellular Cinema screening | Minneapolis, USA*
> 2016 The 8 Fest, 8x8 screening | Toronto, ON*
> 2015 Black Hole Cinema screening | Oakland, USA *
> Edge of Frame Programme 1 | London, UK
> Beyond the Perimeter screening | Holland, Manitoba *
> Winnipeg U.F.F. fundraiser | Winnipeg, MB *
* = presented LIVE!
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Deux années s'écoulent durant lesquelles Don Zeghers, un fermier de Holland au Manitoba, vend petit à petit sa ferme familiale multi générationnelle. À l'aide de photographie expérimentale en film Super 8, en 16 mm et en formats numériques, son fils Aaron Zeghers observe ce changement de vie et la dissolution de la ferme familiale... Peut-être un microcosme du monde industriel moderne? Le monde naturel est mis en contraste à la puissance industrielle dans ce portrait existentiel de sa propre vie et de celle de ses bien-aimés.