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Mimesis 2022 Programs Announced

Man harvesting salt from salt flats in California.

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. Presented in conjunction with Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center and the ATLAS Institute B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance, the festival brings 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 international culture.

Still from Song of Salt (2022) by Opening Night Artists Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder.

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With an opening night presentation of Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder’s debut feature Song of Salt (2022, USA) as well as screenings and a masterclass with Artist-in-Focus Iva Radivojević, the Mimesis Documentary Festival highlights more than 60 projects selected from open submissions in traditional, ethnographic, docufiction, experimental, documentary arts, and emerging/student categories.

Still from Aleph (2021, USA/Croatia/Qatar) by Artist-in-Focus Iva Radivojević, courtesy of Picture Palace Pictures and Ivaasks Films.

Tickets available July 19th.


The 2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival is a nonprofit project of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media to help secure and promote Colorado’s place in a local, regional, and international community of documentary creators and scholars. We are artist-centered, community-driven, and dedicated to promoting diversity and transparency. We are committed to programming 80% of projects from open submissions, offering complimentary virtual screening passes to all artists, and waiving submission and entry fees for University of Colorado Boulder students. 

The Mimesis Documentary Festival is brought to life by generous contributions from the University of Colorado’s College of Media, Communication, and Information, the Departments of Anthropology and Critical Media Practices, the Research and Innovation Office, and by the ongoing support of festival partners and individual donors.

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