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Selected Juries, Panels, Presentations
Film Panel Judge, Yaddo Artist Residency 2009
Presenter, Talent Campus Buenos Aires 2009
Festival Judge, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, 2008
Artist Panel, Vancouver International Film Festival 2007
Artist Panel, Jacksonville International Film Festival 2006
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Damn Dirty Apes: Dead Festivals in the USA
Cinema Scope
(Fall 2008)
"In a country that forgets everything, it’s worth remembering that the New York Underground Film Festival, Austin-based Cinematexas, and Iowa City’s Thaw were three of the best festivals for films that opened up new, contemporary ideas of what cinema could be..." |
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Juche Film Series (Winter 2007)
Socialist-realist musical melodramas, military parades and medieval monster movies all under the loving guidance of the Dear Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il. |
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Video
Mundi at the Chicago Cultural Center (2003, 2004)
Co-organizer of experimental video festival sponsored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Goethe Institute, Instituto Cervantes and the Consulates of The Netherlands, Canada, Austria as well as the Mexican Fine Arts Museum. Each year eight international
curators and artists were invited to present video programs to the public.
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Communist Heroes of South America (2004-5)
Needlepoint pillow series of six different lines of communist ideology in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s (press link here) |
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Monster Lotería Film Tour (Spring 2005)
Jim Finn and Arthur Jones present their work in a tour of the Northeast, Midwest and South |
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Red
State Craft Tour (Jan. 2005)
Jim Finn and Cat Mazza tour red state craft fairs with their political
crafts. |
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Men
and Animals Film Tour (Spring 2003)
Jim Finn and Dean Rank present their work in 23 cities. |
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Out
of the Vault (2001)
Organizer, 16mm Festival at the Chicago Cultural Center.
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