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DISTRIBUTION
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CURATING
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Jesus Christ! at the Movies Anthology Film Archives series, December 2023 “There is a quote from French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that’s as good a summary of the hope of religion as any: ‘Someday after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.’ But soon after any movement of love and fellowship appears, the Creeps inevitably move in to harness that love power for their own ends. This series asks how Christianity has functioned down in the dirty politics of humanity? How has the character, the influence, the God-ness of Jesus manifested itself in the movies – even when JC himself is off screen?... (Jim Finn) |
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Migrating Forms Festival 2011 invited Jim Finn to present Musical Numbers from the Juche-Oriented Socialist State of Korea. The program is made up of clips from his favorite movies and music videos from North Korea. In between clips he will read excerpts from Kim Jong Il's On the Art of the Cinema. Included are clips from Marathon Runner (2000), Pulgasari (1985), Girls In My Hometown (1997) and Urban Girl Comes to Get Married (1993). Fun for the whole family. link to Brooklyn Rail article |
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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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Out of the Vault 2001 Organizer, 16mm Festival at the Chicago Cultural Center. |
TOURS
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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 January 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. |
SELECTED WORKSHOPS, JURIES, PANELS
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Short Film Jury, SANFIC (Santiago, Chile) August 2010 |
WRITING
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Damn Dirty Apes: Dead Festivals in the USA 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. All three of these “underground festivals” mixed satire and difficult conceptual work with personal docs and performative videos, focusing on film and video as an artistic expression without playing to the fantasy of modernist high art or preconceptions of genre and expectation. Experimental film and video in the US are often treated as a genre apart from mainstream film, but these festivals showed work across the spectrum of filmmaking, including formal experimentation, video art, radical political work and a low-budget fuck-you kind of underground cinema... (continue reading | download pdf) -Cinema Scope, Fall 2008 |
NEEDLEPOINT
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Communist Heroes of South America 2004-2005 Needlepoint pillow series of six different lines of communist ideology in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s. Each pillow has a revolutionary figure and an organizational symbol or nation he or she is connected to. Pictured left is Carlos the Jackal with the image of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The pillows went on a strange trip right after the 2004 election through South Carolina and Florida to craft fairs as part of the Red State Craft Tour. |
