Double Day @ Union Hall
Curated by Sarah Biagini
October 3-17, 2025
The artists gathered in Double Day reveal sites of labor obscured by social structures and economic ideologies. They enact daily ritual gestures or reinvent ancient mythological figures. Many address at least one, if not both, halves of the “double burden”, generating empowered images of domestic work or reproductive labor. But they all confront creation and destruction side-by-side, entwined from human migration to material movement, together these works trace the cultural and ecological costs of productivity through a constellation of landscapes, creation stories, and speculative futures.
“Though Esy Casey, Rebecca Shapass, and Mars Saude have been presented in past iterations of the Mimesis Documentary Festival – so ostensibly in a documentary-specific context – they each use a different approach or technique to nurture meaningful distance from the indexical nature of their medium, resulting in poetic works that blend reality and fiction, past and present, in a captivatingly lyrical expanse. I feel honored to show artists from the Mimesis community alongside work by Viola Arduini (Longmont based) and Sammy Lee (Denver based). I’m sincerely grateful to Denver Digerati and Union Hall for the opportunity to gather these artists together. “
- Sarah
Sarah Biagini is a film artist/programmer/educator living in the Rocky mountains. She is currently lead programmer of Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, CO. Before moving to Colorado she worked as an art administrator at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and a negative cutting assistant in Seattle, WA, where she also co-programmed the Third Eye Cinema series at the Northwest Film Forum. She is a founding member of the organization Process Reversal, a non-profit dedicated to presenting workshops, screenings, and sharing resources for photochemical filmmaking. Sarah's own film work has screened in places like Uniondocs, Anthology Film Archives, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Short Film Festival Oberhausen.