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The organizers behind Boulder’s Mimesis Documentary Festival, which runs August 4 through 10, don’t believe in documentary as a genre.
“Documentary is an impulse within the arts, something that exists within all art-making,” says Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, which is presenting Mimesis in collaboration with the Dairy Arts Center and the ATLAS Institute B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance. The festival will include traditional docs as well as ethnographic, docu-fiction and experimental films.
“We have a broad scope of what we consider documentary,” adds festival director Curt Heiner, noting…
