14.08.14 | Aaron ZEGHERS + Shannon HARRIS + Eduardo MENZ 

MICROCINEMA ETRE | 20h00 | Gratuit | Free
En présence des cinéastes | Filmmakers present
ZEGHERS : I See a Light + 11 Parking Lots and One Gradual Sunset
HARRIS : lacuna + Terroir
MENZ : fracas + Las Mujeres de Pinochet

Q&A : EN | FR

INTERVIEW | ENTREVUE

Aaron ZEGHERS

Aaron Zeghers is a Winnipeg-based artist working in film and video. He often works with analogue mediums (super 8 & 16mm), found footage and experimental processes. He is a founder of the Open City Cinema collective and the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival. Zeghers' films have played in marginalized venues the world around.
I SEE A LIGHT
July 2011 | 1:30 | experimental documentary | 16mm and digital found footage | 4:3 | colour | stereo

A brief glimpse into the final moments of a lifetime. Created from found 16mm, video and audio footage.

11 PARKING LOTS AND ONE GRADUAL SUNSET
March 2014 | 8:28 | experimental documentary | 16:9 | colour | stereo

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

"Nature here is vile and base... I see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away... it's a land that God, if he exists, has created in anger. It's the only land where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at what's around us here, there is some sort of a harmony..."

Filmed in Winnipeg, MB on November 11th, 2013 by Aaron Zeghers and Nigel Webber.
http://aaronzeghers.com/

Shannon HARRIS

LACUNA
2008 | 9:40

Lacuna: 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; an absence. 2. a discontinuity in an anatomical structure.
Different textures of grief and acceptance emerge and the camera eye becomes a lens into the interior. Space is inhabited by memory; memory becomes a gesture that seeks the past. Lacuna is a poetic meditation that navigates a landscape of absence, memory and transformation though image and sound. 

The process of shooting and editing this film was an intuitive one that was very attached to the process of working through a loss. In the summer of 2007 my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly from cancer. My connection to her is strong; it is one between mother and daughter and between place and home. This film is an image/sound poem as well as a document of the experience and grief of the loss of my mother.
TERROIR
2012 | 6:45

Roughly translated terroir can mean a sense of place and coming from a place. This piece is an image/sound portrait of a personal geography as well as formal investigation of digital media. Captured entirely on a cell phone, the camera records a landscape in constant motion and disintegration. This fluctuating image is married to a sound-scape that grasps for connection that reaches over distance. It is generated from the messages left by friends and loved ones on my cellphone over the course of several years. The raw material of both image and sound come from the same place, the cell phone, which I use to record the environment around me as I move across the Canadian landscape. Rarely does one stay where one is born, we move, modern life almost necessitates it. This piece explores notions of communication and distance, technology and intimacy.

Eduardo MENZ

FRACAS
2007 | 4:30 | Digital8 | Stereo

The juxtaposition of children’s school portraits with the anxious voices of an elementary spelling bee reveals a haunting reality of innocence that has vanished.  In this experimental documentary, Eduardo Menz repurposes found images with great effect to create an emotionally compelling montage that lingers long after the film ends.


LAS MUJERES DE PINOCHET (LES FEMMES DE PINOCHET | PINOCHET'S WOMEN) 

Experimental | Canada (Québec) | 2005 | Hi8 | Colour | 12 min | Spanish with English subtitles

In this experimental short, the viewer is forced to role-play through the repeated employment and alteration of the text, sound and image until his or her expectations have been truthfully realized. The video examines class structure, the meaning of beauty and forgotten history through two very different but significant women during Pinochet's brutal regime of the late 1980's.

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