Authored by Renata Barreto, designed by Nima Bahrehmand, edited by Eric Coombs Esmail with photography by Laurids Andersen Sonne and additional contributions by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, the 2021 Mimesis Journal captures the second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival in artist interviews, short essays, and program notes.

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.

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.

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…

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

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.