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Mimesis (n.) /məˈmēsis/

Resemblance, receptivity, representation, and the act of expression. Art from life. 

Mimesis Documentary Festival 2021

The second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, presented August 4-10, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado, is an immersive theatrical and virtual experience featuring in-person and at-home screenings, workshops, and conversations with documentary artists, scholars, and producers from across the world.

 

Featured Project

The Length of Day

A documentary film by Laura Conway 

A collaged essay film that tells an emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism. An account of the dreams, struggles, and losses of revolutionaries in the United States. At its heart is the question - how can we imagine an alternative to capitalism?

The Length of Day premiered at the 2021 Slamdance Festival in the documentary shorts category. 

News and Events

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Announcing MDF2021 Featured Artist: Pedro Costa

The Mimesis Documentary Festival is excited to announce our 2021 Featured Artist: internationally acclaimed Portuguese... Read more
On location (2019) at the San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Taos during the Christmas Las Posadas celebration.

Doc on Campus: A World in the Evening

Stills from work-in-process A World in The Evening by Daniel Boord (Professor Emeritus Critical Media... Read more
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Announcing Mimesis Documentary Festival 2021

The second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival will present August 4-10th, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. As... Read more
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Support

The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media is generously supported by the College of Media, Communication and Information, the Departments of Anthropology and Critical Media Practices, the Research and Innovation Office, and by individual contributions.

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