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Special Category: Moving Creatures

In partnership with Cool Boulder, Moving Creatures is a call to artists for new short and feature documentaries that explore the restoration of the natural world or the interrelatedness of humans and non-human species, and how these subjects can provide solutions to climate change, a path to social equity, and/or a sustainable economy.

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Mimesis 2023 - In Review

Artist-focused, community-oriented, and committed to showcasing the infinite potential of nonfiction media, the fourth annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, August 15-20, 2023, in Boulder, Colorado, was an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops, and more with artists, producers, and scholars from around the world. Presented in conjunction with Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance, the festival brought together six days of screenings, installation-based documentary art pieces, workshops, and conversations with some of the most dynamic voices in documentary media exploring contemporary culture.

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Mimesis 2022 - In Review

In 2022, Mimesis held its annual hybrid (in-person + virtual) Documentary Festival, hosted in August by the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado. An event attended by hundreds of artists, students, scholars, and members of the community, MDF showcased 70+ works by some of the most dynamic voices in documentary and ethnographic media…

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Masterclass: A Secret Cinema

This masterclass will explore the idea of the Specter who is at the same time both visible and invisible.

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Artist-in-Focus: Iva Radivojević

Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos.

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Mimesis 2022 Programs Announced

Artist-focused, community-oriented, and committed to showcasing the infinite potential of nonfiction media, the third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, August 2-7, 2022, in Boulder, Colorado, is an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops, and more with artists, producers, and scholars from around the world.

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