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Mimesis Magazine — Film as Performance celebrates its second issue centered around the concept of "spoiling," featuring contributions by Asher Hartman, Nina Sarnelle, Ryat Yezbick, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Tatum Howey, and Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja. The launch event will bring together some of the contributors for an evening of short film screenings, readings, performances and concurrent live spoilage. The magazine is edited by Neha Choksi, Elbe Trakal, and Lior Shamriz.

Mimesis is a platform for social and cultural analysis at the intersection of contemporary film practices as acts of performance and the performance of our everyday as fundamentally shaped by the cinematic and the moving image. We see film’s trans-temporal communication capacity as an opportunity to help decipher power structures within our sensorial worlds. Writing on film performance practices guides our learning process and the possibilities for resistance and subversion of those modes of power. We embrace the compulsion for the mimetic as a chance for mutation and failure.