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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.
Write a single sentence evoking the ideas of documentary, experimentation, process, and acceptance…Submissions are now open for the 2023 edition of the Mimesis Documentary Festival.Mimesis returns to the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder,
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
The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, in partnership with the Department of Critical Media Practices, the College of Media, Communication, and Information, and the Flaherty, is pleased to be able to offer two (2) in-person
Emerging from behind our screens, documentary creates new windows for experience and understanding...Discounted early bird submissions are now open for the 2022 edition of the Mimesis Documentary Festival.MDF returns to the Dairy Arts Center in
In 2021, Mimesis held its first-ever hybrid (in-person + virtual) Documentary Festival, hosted in August by the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado with major support from the Stewart Family Foundation. An event attended by hundreds
Still from opening night artist Lynne Sachs's Film About a Father Who (2020).We're excited to announce the program for the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival, welcoming Featured Artist Pedro Costa! With 22 blocks of nonfiction programming and
The Mimesis Documentary Festival is excited to announce our 2021 Featured Artist: internationally acclaimed Portuguese director Pedro Costa. An award-winner at Locarno, Cannes, and many more, Costa's extensive career has transformed documentary and
Stills from work-in-process A World in The Evening by Daniel Boord (Professor Emeritus Critical Media Practices) and Luis Valdovino (Professor, Art and Art History).On location (2019) at the San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in
The second annual Mimesis Documentary Festival will present August 4-10th, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. As infectious political anxieties spread across the world, we are acutely reminded that media build power through discourse. In