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The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost screens at the Boedecker Cinema inside the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder during the Mimesis Documentary Festival on Aug. 16. Photo courtesy Moserfilm.

DON’T MISS THESE THEMED PROGRAMS DURING THE 2023 MIMESIS DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

FRIDAY, AUG. 18

7 P.M. – Opening Night: Miracle Spheres

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,” while Rebel Objects takes a “journey through [Costa Rica’s] deleted Indigenous history.”

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16

1 P.M. – Connective Tissue

“These documentaries look intently at illusions of health, disability, self-advocacy and knowing the pain of others.”

4 P.M. – Mobile Roost

“Alternative perspectives interweave to examine the extraction and distribution of information by ambivalent technologies.”

7:30 P.M. – For Sure. Maybe.

“Confronted with the perpetual rhythm of change and the profound impact of childhood, we’re haunted by the uncertainty of our early years.”

THURSDAY, AUG. 17

10 A.M. – Parkland of Decay and Fantasy

“Technology and spirituality are parallel paranormal forces in an abandoned Chinese amusement park.”

1 P.M. – Photographic Memory

“A program that interrogates its own image making, the elusive memories that images preserve and the traces of oppression.”

7:30 P.M. – Eye Level

“Walking a tightrope between intimacy and audacity, the portraits in this program balance aesthetic risk with deep care for the labor, passion and life experience of their protagonists.”

1 P.M. – A Place to Be

“Personal archives of the hardcore mundane meet blurred memories and sacred sites. If home existed, we would be there by now.”

4 P.M. – Double Shift

“Lyrically powerful and formally bold indictments of the insidious violence women encounter –and perpetrate – in the domestic realm.”

SATURDAY, AUG. 19

1 P.M. – Thin Strips

“The dyadic implications of infrastructural development are full of desires and fantasies – eminent domain for the fabrication of totalizing truths in the name of progress.”

4 P.M. – Speaking in Tongues

“Non-human queer heroes help us imagine different ways of living and experiencing the world, breaking the mold of humanity’s self-destructive tendencies.”

SUNDAY, AUG. 20

1 P.M. – Do Not Carry Silence

“Historical and contemporary documents of rising activist voices and emerging revolutions, united by unwavering political catalyzers painting a vibrant horizon of hope for the future.”

4 P.M. – Latencies

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Framing the intersections of democracy, environmental justice and scientific advancement, this selection of works offers a way into late capitalism’s various crises.”

7:30 P.M. – Closing Night: Spawning Points

“Players venture through the shifting borderlands between the organic and the artificial, testing their mettle, securing valuable resources, replenishing mana, harvesting precious loot, upgrading inventory and unlocking new achievements.”