My name is Zak Margolis.

I make lots of different kinds of work, but in my heart I am a filmmaker. Weird, scary, funny. These movies will make you sweat.

An Evening With Father
2022, 6 minutes, 30 seconds
animation and sound: Zak Margolis
music by Charlie Campbell at AikaMusic
Fabulous Monster 12
2021, 30 seconds
collage: Melody Owen
animation and sound: Zak Margolis
Andante Moderato
2021, 7 minutes 56 seconds
music composed by Florence Price, performed by Pyxis Quartet
image: Zak Margolis
A Rat's Life
2018, 5 minutes 20 seconds
image and sound: Zak Margolis
Origin of the True Cinema
2015 / 9 minutes
Based on writings by the Organism for Poetic Research
image and sound: Zak Margolis
Strategies for Navigating the Oblivion
2014 / 4 minutes 22 seconds
image and sound: Zak Margolis
Moonbabies
2008 / 14 minutes
Made with help from the Regional Arts and Culture Council
image and sound: Zak Margolis
How To Travel
2016 / 1 minute 45 seconds
poem and voice: Alicia Jo Rabins / face: Alicia McDaid
image and sound: Zak Margolis
I Dream of Mother
2015 / 1 minutes 17 seconds
image and sound: Zak Margolis
Drowningboy
2002 / 12 minutes 30 seconds
image and sound: Zak Margolis
Garden Party
2014 / 1 minute 15 seconds
photography, direction, puppets, writing, cock wrangling: Christopher Rabilwongse
concept, writing, sound, compositing: Zak Margolis
the mustache
2002 / 11 minutes
image and sound: Zak Margolis
This is the more unpleasant "original soundtrack" version of this film. For a less grating experience, go to the music video section and watch Charlie Campbell's "Goldcard" version.
Halloween
2014 / 3 minutes 11 seconds
voice of Antonapolis: Greg Margolis (rest in peace, uncle!)
image and sound: Zak Margolis