BIO
“Jim Finn has made a name for himself...thanks to his feeling for irony and his capacity to shape something new from propaganda, news and other historic images. Not to forget his very dry sense of humour” —Rotterdam International Film Festival

Jim Finn (b. St. Louis, 1968) is an critically acclaimed filmmaker who uses humor and historical fiction to examine ideology, capitalism and revolutionary art practices. His work has screened at international festivals like Rotterdam, Sundance and Edinburgh as well as museums and cinematheques such as the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Danish Film Institute and the Harvard Film Archive. Interkosmos, the first of his trilogy of feature-length films looking at Marxist ideology, was called "a retro gust of communist utopianism" by the Village Voice and "charming and fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres" by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. His second feature La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo was put on the Village Voice's Top 10 Year in Experimental Film. And Variety called The Juche Idea, his film about a North Korean art residency, "brilliant" and said all three films "upturn notions of documentary and fiction, propaganda thought, reality and restaging, and even what an 'experimental film' actually is."

NEW RELEASE:
GREAT MAN AND CINEMA:
Wholphin DVD #8

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Tijuana Media Lab, Mexico, July 4 (in person)
Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, July 23-Aug 2 (in person)
Seminario Internacional de Cinema e Audiovisual, Salvador, Brazil, July 27-Aug 2 (in person)

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Great Man and Cinema (3:45, 2009)
The Juche Idea (62 min, 2008)
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
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The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo, 60 min, 2007)
Interkosmos (71 min, 2006)
la lotería (video series, 2004-5)
super-max (13:00, 16mm on video, 2003)
Decision 80 (10:00, video, 2003)
wüstenspringmaus (3:45, 16mm on video, 2002)
el güero (3:45, 16mm on video, 2001)
comunista! (3:30, 16mm on video, 2001)
sharambaba (3:00, 16mm on video, 1999)


CONTACT
finn.jim@gmail.com

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