Jim Finn
"Steeped in the obsolete language of revolutionary art," Dennis Lim in The New York Times said Jim Finn's movies "often play like unearthed artifacts from an alternate universe." Born in St. Louis in 1968, he went to school with Jesuits, St. Joseph nuns, Benedictine monk, and Christian Brothers. Each religious order left its mark. His award-winning movies have been called "Utopian comedies" and "trompe l'oeil films." They’ve have screened widely at festivals like Rotterdam, AFI, Sundance, Edinburgh, and BAFICI in Argentina as well as cinematheques, museums, artist-run galleries, and microcinemas. He has had retrospectives in seven countries including dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. His Communist Trilogy is in the permanent collection of the MoMA. The first of three feature films, Interkosmos was called "a retro gust of communist utopianism" by the Village Voice. La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo features in the 2010 Phaidon Press Take 100 — The Future of Film: 100 New Directors. Variety called his film about a North Korean art residency The Juche Idea "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." He teaches film and video at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
