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's movies have been called "Utopian comedies". 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 communist trilogy 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."
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
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)
Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (2:30, 2009)
The Juche Idea (62 min, 2008)
La Trinchera Luminosa
del Presidente Gonzalo
(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)
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CONTACT
finn.jim@gmail.com
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