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  • mimesis submissions 2025
    Submissions are now open for the 2025 edition of the Mimesis Documentary Festival
  • mimesis 2024 review2
    Artist-focused and community-oriented, the 5th annual Mimesis Documentary Festival was held in Boulder, Colorado from August 14-18. Featuring a captivating program of movies, workshops, installation, performance, and virtual offerings with artists,
  • Mimesis Journal cover.
    The long-awaited 2021 Mimesis Journal is now available.
  • Pink moth on pink a branch.
    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.
  • Moth moving through a surreal atmosphere
     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,
  • Two polaroids from Gaada by Iva Radivojevic.
     “Life is always spectral, my life is always spectral, and in the trace is always life.”- Akira Mizuta Lippit on Jacques DerridaThis masterclass will explore the idea of the Specter who is at the same time both visible and invisible.Perhaps
  • MDF 2022 Programs Announced
    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
  • a moth in gray. Text on the image: mimesis documentary festival 2022
    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
  • An audience sits in crowded theater.
      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
  • Man on bed with filmmaker Lynne Sachs visible in a mirror in the background. Still from Sachs's doucmentary Film About a Father Who (2020).
    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
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