Mimesis Documentary Festival 2021
Resemblance, receptivity, representation, and the act of expression.
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.
Now open for submissions!
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 will premier at the 2021 Slamdance Festival in the documentary shorts category.
Tickets to slamdance are free until December 31st: https://slamdance.com/
Programs
FxB: The Unwriting of Disaster
Crash Theory
Announcement: Flaherty x Boulder Fellowships 2020
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.