Aaron Zeghers

Aaron Zeghers is a Canadian filmmaker, film programmer, writer and educator from Winnipeg, now living in Montréal.

Zeghers works primarily as an experimental and non-fiction filmmaker, utilizing found images and histories, analog formats, obsolete technologies and experimental processes. 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, Hot Docs, 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.

Zeghers is the founder of www.InvertedPyramid.org -- an independent resource for moving image artists, academic researchers, funders and the general public to find out about Film Festivals' fiscal practices. The project is concerned with the exploitative hierarchy that has developed regarding moving image exhibition and fair compensation for artists, with the hopes of increasing organizational accountability and sparking discussions surrounding ethical arts management.

Zeghers is a co-founder of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and the former Director for the Gimli International Film Festival, Manitoba’s largest film festival. He is the current Vice-Chair of the Board for Hot Docs Intl. Documentary Film Festival, and the former Chair of the Independent Media Arts Alliance and Winnipeg Film Group. He is currently on leave from his position as a Professor at the Digital Film & Media Production Program at RRC Polytech in Winnipeg.

Supervisor: Jean-Claude Bustros

Thesis Film Title: "The Infinite Image"

Research Interests:

Experimental cinema, expanded cinema, experimental documentary, analog film processes & techniques, colour theory, vision and perception,  truth and reality, impacts of the reproduced image, history of photography, photograph as evidence, anti-capitalist analysis of the arts sector and in particular film festivals.

Teaching/TAShips:

FMPR 231 Filmmaking I
FFAR 298 Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
FFAR 298 The City After Dark

Selected Filmography:

A Tolerable Planet | Experimental Documentary Feature | 16mm | 90min | unreleased (2028)
Possible Worlds | Experimental Documentary Feature | 16mm | 90min | unreleased (2027)
Memoirs | Short Experimental Doc | 16mm | 10min | 2019
DANNY | Doc | Found Footage | VHS-C | 50min | 2019
Everything Turns… | Expanded Cinema | 12min | Super 8 | 2017  
Holland, Man. | Expanded Cinema | 20min | 16mm, Super, Digital | 2015

Selected Publications:

Zeghers, A. (2025). Alternate Letters: A Response to Mike Hoolboom's 'ABCs of the Canon'. In C. Enns (Ed.), Mike Hoolboom: Work. Canadian Film Institute. 

Zeghers, A. (2016-2025). Various Articles & Research. Inverted Pyramid.org 

Zeghers, A. (2011-2013). Various Articles. Cineflyer Winnipeg. 

Website: www.AaronZeghers.com

Instagram: @atozeghers