The Nightingale welcomes experimental / expanded filmmakers Scott Fitzpatrick, Clint Enns and Aaron Zeghers, as they flee the ravaged streets of their fair Winnipeg, in search of a warmer, more exotic climate to present their work. “All Roads Leave Winnipeg” is 7-date film tour featuring expanded cinema performances and single channel films by three of Winnipeg’s most notorious cine-stars, Scott Fitzpatrick, Aaron Zeghers and Clint Enns.

the program//

-Part I – Work by Aaron Zeghers-

Holland, Man.
[2015, 20min, 16mm + Super 8 + Digital + Live Sound]

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 dissolution of the family farm is seen both intimately but also as a microcosm of the modern industrialized world. Nature is contrasted with industrial might in this sentimental and existential portrait of one’s own family. (This will not be performed in Milwaukee)

Everything Turns…
[2016, 12min, Super8]

From 1 to 12 minutes, ‘Everything Turns…’ is a shorthand study of the mythology of numbers. Scientific tradition is adopted then eschewed for rumours, legends and defunct theories from across the ages. As the days turn to night and the seasons pass, the camera pens a year-long record of space, movement and the passing of time in historic locations around the world. This almanac of anthropomorphic numerology is recorded in-camera onto Super 8 using a myriad of experimental techniques. Just like Richter nearly 100 years ago, we will discover that everything turns, everything revolves and everything feels the deep score of time.

-Part II – Work by Clint Enns-

Lost Images Found: a photo talk

Exploring the art of decontextualizing (and re-contextualizing) lost and discarded media. By creating an archive of found images and working in the milieu of found footage appropriation, the artworks created are an attempt to resurrect abandoned cultural artifacts.

with:

The Everden, 2013, pxl2000, 16:33 (B&W, Stereo)

Conflicted emotions about the city. Fears and anxieties surrounding movement and travel. Fragile dreams become nightmarish realities.

-Part III – Work by Scott Fitzaptrick-

Straight Lines (for RV) [2015, 1 min, 16mm]
Screen Test 1 (self-portrait) [2015, 2.5 min, 16mm]
Immortal Cats #1 [2015, 1 min, 35mm]

Dingbat’s Revenge [2015, 7 min, 16mm]

Can an experimental animator follow contemporary Hollywood logic? New ideas are out of fashion; everything’s a trilogy. Laser-printed onto recycled 16mm film in 2015, Dingbat’s Revenge is a coded, stroboscopic manifesto pitched somewhere between abstraction and representation. “Can you feel that? We’re done here. Move out of the way or I’m gonna run you over.” – Tony Stark.

Second Star [1x16mm, ~20min]

Second Star is a sound performance for moving-image mechanics. Black and white text is laser-printed onto clear 16mm film, assembled into loops and translated into rhythm and tone by an analog projector. Photographic tradition is eschewed in favour of something invested neither in abstraction nor representation, re-imagining the potential for an obsolete technology.

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