Dear Comrades and Colleagues, Please see the announcement below from Mimesis: The third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center and the B2 Center for Media Arts from August 2-7. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/12d0f59e3e2e/mdf2022-programs-announced-15531254?e=5b1b47f871> Reserve Tickets Now <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=1072192160&e=5b1b47f871> MDF 2022 Tickets On Sale August 2-7 - Boulder, CO ------------------------------ We are pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 2022 Mimesis Documentary Festival, welcoming Artist-in-Focus Iva Radivojević and Opening Night Artists Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder. With 20+ programs including documentary blocks, installation-based documentary arts, conversations, and masterclasses by more than 60 artists from around the world, the third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=3e5a127517&e=5b1b47f871> and the B2 Center for Media Arts <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=89950cb3f3&e=5b1b47f871> from August 2-7. View the 2022 Program <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=356b993c86&e=5b1b47f871> The festival kicks off with an opening night screening <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=63d9e308b4&e=5b1b47f871> on August 2nd at 7 PM featuring *Song of Salt* by Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder (2022, US). Set in an isolated mining town on the outskirts of Death Valley, *Song of Salt* is an immersive glimpse into the struggles and celebrations within a tight-knit community as its residents, suspended between the past and the future, face the present realities of an eroding economy. *“Meaningful and captivating… the perfect observational documentary”* - Film Threat <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=112e7a069e&e=5b1b47f871> Reserve Tickets for Opening Night <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=1f34fb14b6&e=5b1b47f871> Still from *Song of Salt *(2022) by Emma Baiada and Nicolas Snyder Masterclass: A Secret Cinema We are also excited to announce the topic of Artist-in-Focus Iva Radivojević's masterclass - A Secret Cinema - taking place on August 6th at 10 AM. “Life is always spectral, *my *life is always spectral, and in the trace is always life.” - Akira Mizuta Lippit on Jacques Derrida This masterclass will explore the idea of the *Specter *who is at the same time both visible and invisible. Perhaps haunting. Both biographical and autobiographical. The *Specter* is arrived at from elsewhere, an outside, and all the while remains secret. The eye / I, the narrating *Specter*, reflection, and self-reflection are all components of the workshop. The theme is inspired by an essay titled *Derrida, Specters, Self-Reflection* by Akira Mizuta Lippit in which Life, Spectrality, and Autobiography are outlined as the elements of a secret cinema (and Derrida himself). The workshop will dissect these elements to lean into the secret, and explore questions of dream logic and the mythical in my moving image work. It will include some of my short films as well as a screening of *Gaàda*, a "process" film assembled from footage I gathered in pre-production for my film *Aleph*. With love, --*Iva Radivojević, Lesbos, July 2022* Reserve Tickets for the Masterclass <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=3559369155&e=5b1b47f871> Still from *Gaàda *by Iva Radivojević Aleph Iva will also present her latest feature project, *Aleph *(2021, US/HR/QA, 91’) on August 5th at 8 PM courtesy of Picture Palace Pictures and Ivaasks Films. *"...a deeply sensual and thrillingly experiential work, one full of...unexpected visual pleasures and musings on cultural differences and commonalities..."* -Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=14c84f2ce5&e=5b1b47f871> Reserve Tickets for Aleph <https://centerforethnographicmedia.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d02b3ebfaceb3cb489c1a57d&id=6559e3a496&e=5b1b47f871> Stills from *Aleph *(2022) by Iva Radivojević courtesy of Picture Palace Pictures and Ivaasks Films. 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