TICKETS American Glass Factory by Jason Fox and Aliya Pabani (2023, US, 55’) Live Performance What does the U.S. Democratic Party share with observational documentary? The promise and the problem of transparency. In a live performance from the forthcoming audio series "Trust Issues," Jason Fox explores the sixty-year long relationship between Direct Cinema and Democratic […]

TICKETS A conversation with 2023 Mimesis artists on performance, politics and expanded documentary media. Topics include: embodiment, interactivity, movement, queerness and feminism, audio and music performance, non-actors performing themselves, political performance, re-enactments and trauma, choreography and labor, performance and rituals Suggested Watch List: American Glass Factory My Electric Genealogy Venus in Ferns Remembering Marnie The Fall […]

TICKETS A Place To Be Documentary Block Like an abecedary of former addresses, possessions, and nation states, this alphabet catalogs loss, relocations, and rituals of reconnection. Personal archives of the hardcore mundane meet blurred memories and sacred sites. If home existed, we would be there by now.   Program: We are the houses we lived […]

TICKETS Double Shift Documentary Block Lyrically powerful and formally bold indictments of the insidious violence women encounter – and perpetrate – in the domestic realm. Anti-tales reclaim autonomy and celebrate survival, processing distilled lifetimes of alienation and separation through poetry and movement.   Program: Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023, UK/MA, 22’) Kamila Kuc Chadariya […]

TICKETS Faya dayi by Jessica Beshir (2021, ET/US/QA, 118’) A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia’s Oromo and Harari communities, places where one commodity—khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties—holds sway over […]