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The fourth annual Mimesis Documentary Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media Arts from August 15-20.
We are pleased to announce the program for the 2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival, welcoming Opening Night Artists Carolina Arias Ortiz and Leonardo Pirondi.
With 15+ programs including documentary blocks, installation-based documentary arts, conversations, and masterclasses by more than 60 artists from around the world, the fourth annual Mimesis Documentary Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media Arts from August 15-20 - Festival Passes on sale now.
Stills (from top left to bottom right) from The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost (2021, CN/DE, 73’) by Qinyuan Lei, A Good Neighbor (2023, US, 53’) by Maggie Hartmans & Brittany Zampella, Parkland of Decay and Fantasy by Chenliang Zhu (2022, CN, 104’), and A Common Sequence (2023, US/MX, 78’) by Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser.
The festival kicks off with an opening night screening on August 15 at 7 PM featuring Carolina Arias Ortiz's debut feature Rebel Objects (2020, USA) and Leonardo Pirondi’s short Visão do Paraíso (2022, Brazil/USA/UK).
Still from Rebel Objects by Carolina Arias Ortiz (2020, CR/CO, 69’)
Rebel Objects
In Rebel Objects, Anthropologist and filmmaker Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to Costa Rica, where she spent her childhood. She visits her estranged father. When he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, death suddenly draws close. At the same time she meets the archaeologist Ifigenia Quintanilla, who is conducting research into one of Costa Rica’s most famous cultural phenomena: the large, pre-Columbian stone spheres found scattered across the landscape, and the many myths associated with them.
Still from Visão do Paraíso by Leonardo Pirondi (2022, BR/US/UK, 16’)
Visão do Paraíso
Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a “New World”.
Mimesis Documentary Festival is brought to life by support from our community of international artists, audiences, and partners. Your donations support artists and help keep screenings and workshops free for CU students. Contribute now and help us continue to provide a platform for the infinite potential of documentary media.
B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance, CU College of Media, Communication, and Information, CU Department of Critical Media Practices, Dairy Arts Center, Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, and the Mission Zero Fund.
Individual Tickets Available on August 1
Mimesis is an initiative of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media to create and foster a local, regional, and international network of documentary artists, scholars, and producers. We are artist-focused, community oriented, and committed to providing a platform for the infinite potential of nonfiction media.
