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Sunday, August 3, 2025
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Monday, August 4, 2025
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Featured August 5, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Opening Night The Shards
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Opening Night The Shards
TICKETSThe Shards In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into a chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way of coping with the grief is to fixate everything with […]
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
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Featured August 6, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Blown in Full
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Featured August 6, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: 44 Juvenile Thieves
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Featured August 6, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Lossy Compression
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Blown in Full
TICKETSLet us think through other eyes as they gaze upon this world so that we may unsettle reality and liberate doubt. We are looking for a version of the truth - in soft shadows, from the corner of a private room, under harsh fluorescents, through careful microscopes, or in memories made visible on film. Here, […]
Mimesis Documentary Festival: 44 Juvenile Thieves
TICKETS Messages for a mitochondrial Eve are transmitted through time, connecting choices made in the past to renditions of our future selves. Works of reinvention, correction, and augmentation explore the construction of identity through archetypes, ancestral mythologies, and matrilineal lines.
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Lossy Compression
TICKETS A fluxus detective follows clues with too much data removed. Alienated youth forge performances and perform forgeries, redefining healing work with a new aesthetic of paranoia. Lonely lives are transformed with a trick mirror and a roar.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
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Featured August 7, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Contracts + Complicity
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Featured August 7, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Unquiet Waves
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Featured August 7, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Midwestern Passages
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Featured August 7, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Camouflaged Violence
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Contracts + Complicity
TICKETS This performative screening will be followed by a conversation with festival artists. Sunset Seduction Sunset Seduction stars a liberal philanthropist yearning for his next fling with radical politics. Made as the Palestine solidarity movement escalated in 2024, the work unfolds in essayistic fragments considering ideas of freedom, violence, and the seductive capture of revolutionary ideology. […]
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Unquiet Waves
TICKETS Turn on the radio. Tune in to a station that shouldn’t exist. Sense the air thicken with thoughts and words from below. Witness the emergencies of war, rampant capitalism and inequality, colonial aftermaths, and environmental decline. Filmmakers hone our ears to underground frequencies of dissent, liberation, and restorative justice.
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Midwestern Passages
TICKETSAcross the flyway, cigar-shaped swifts cover the sky in aerial maneuvers, drawn from afar by instinctual desires. They find night rest in the vertical plane above a seasonal migration of young humans. Their remote wish for new horizons is fledged, morphed, and curtailed as the promise of summer slides into reality. The doldrums of everyday […]
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Camouflaged Violence
TICKETS Normalization of inequality is enacted with bare bureaucratic fists. Hiding in plain sight, the deficit of care for the social body elicits protests across generations. Abortion clinics, needle exchanges, and collaborative communication point to mechanisms of resistance against the ache of violent pressure.
Friday, August 8, 2025
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Featured August 8, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Expanded Cinema, Antidote to Dread
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Featured August 8, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: The Fire Constant
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Featured August 8, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Panchromatic
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Featured August 8, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: In Excess
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Expanded Cinema, Antidote to Dread
TICKETS In this workshop, Featured Artist Melissa Langer leads a conversation on experimental filmmaking as an expanded process of gathering media for building a world over time. She shares methods for exhibiting multimedia installations and micro-screenings during the years-long process of making a feature-length film, recounts her experiences working as part of an artist collective, […]
Mimesis Documentary Festival: The Fire Constant
TICKETSOil refineries bloom into nocturnal infernos, swallowing darkness with hideous hypnotic grace. In the quiet fractures of community and the melancholy of spaces once brimming with possibility, these works ricochet between aspiration and collapse. Beneath drought-stricken wells and coal-scarred fields, specters inhabit our abandoned territories, living among the remnants of a society consuming itself.
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Panchromatic
TICKETS Masked images, faulty memories, material memorandums, and formless histories question the shape of what is to come. Echoes reflect off the walls, destabilizing the equilibrium of our spatial awareness. Is knowledge contingent? Are we sitting in a room?
Mimesis Documentary Festival: In Excess
TICKETS An examination of labor, capital, and displacement in modern America through the lens of one city’s trash — in sewers and streets, waterways and workplaces. A gritty dive into the inner workings of a city’s infrastructure that embraces different formats, weaving newly digitized archival material together with surveillance footage and contemporary vignettes of people […]
Saturday, August 9, 2025
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Featured August 9, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: The Hours That Hold Us
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Featured August 9, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Finding Mnemo
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Featured August 9, 2025 -Featured Mimesis Documentary Festival: Noetic Bodies
Mimesis Documentary Festival: The Hours That Hold Us
TICKETS Acts of resistance in Pinochet’s Chile come to life in a chemical bath. Darkroom routines resonate in the rhythms of a Chinese-American restaurant kitchen. Distinct image formats and processes catalyze intergenerational closeness. Beyond image-making, conversations, both casual and staged, make space to process and preserve the memory of our elders.
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Finding Mnemo
TICKETS Memory endeavors to keep the loss motionless, so that it stays with us and remains open to the future. Remembering does not prevent destruction, but preserves it, and what we remember is never what it once was. Our memories disrupt the coherence of absence with fragments that form patterns under our deciphering gaze.
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Noetic Bodies
TICKETS To conquer lands, suppressive colonial powers eliminate bodies. But even after being devoured, their ghosts still roam. They migrate into stone, lake, tale, and echo. They turn into colors that shine, and movements that sprout. They manifest within the collective imagination, spreading everywhere, reclaiming ground, and shaping new landscapes.