Jim Finn
Jim Finn is the writer/director of what have been called "Utopian comedies." His first feature film Interkosmos (71 minutes, 2006) is about an East German space colonization mission. His second feature La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo (60 minutes, 2007) is about a day in the life of a Shining Path women's prison cellblock. His third feature The Juche Idea (62 minutes, 2008) is about an artist residency in North Korea. He has been making short films and videos since 1999. His work is available through the Video Data Bank and Facets DVD. He was born in 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri. He went to graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. He teaches video and writing at Emerson College. He started making movies in Chicago in the late 1990s and became a fixture on the microcinema scene. His short videos appeared at festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Impakt Festival, LA Freewaves and many others.
Producer
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Great Man and Cinema
Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, ran the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. The film's title GREAT MAN AND CINEMA comes from a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how the Dear Leader has written, edited,...Watch Movie
Director
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Great Man and Cinema
Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, ran the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. The film's title GREAT MAN AND CINEMA comes from a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how the Dear Leader has written, edited,...Watch Movie
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe...Watch Movie
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La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 1980s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women’s prison cellblock in Peru. After capture, the Gang-of-Four Maoist revolutionaries basically ran their...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
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Granada
An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim Finn's hallucinatory staging and bold camera angles offers a distinctly surreal take on the Spanish dance that is halfway between the classic spaghetti westerns and Jim Jarmusch's downtown...Watch Movie
Writer
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Great Man and Cinema
Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, ran the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. The film's title GREAT MAN AND CINEMA comes from a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how the Dear Leader has written, edited,...Watch Movie
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe...Watch Movie
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Granada
An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim Finn's hallucinatory staging and bold camera angles offers a distinctly surreal take on the Spanish dance that is halfway between the classic spaghetti westerns and Jim Jarmusch's downtown...Watch Movie
Actor
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe...Watch Movie
Editor
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
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Granada
An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim Finn's hallucinatory staging and bold camera angles offers a distinctly surreal take on the Spanish dance that is halfway between the classic spaghetti westerns and Jim Jarmusch's downtown...Watch Movie
Cinematographer
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La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
LA TRINCHERA LUMINOSA DEL PRESIDENTE GONZALO has the look of a Maoist home movie from the 1980s. Shot in Hi-8 video in New Mexico, the film is one day in a Shining Path women’s prison cellblock in Peru. After capture, the Gang-of-Four Maoist revolutionaries basically ran their...Watch Movie
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a Vice President who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to Wyoming to be a retired "hero of...Watch Movie
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Granada
An American hipster wakes up on his Chicago rooftop wedged in between four sultry flamenco dancers. Jim Finn's hallucinatory staging and bold camera angles offers a distinctly surreal take on the Spanish dance that is halfway between the classic spaghetti westerns and Jim Jarmusch's downtown...Watch Movie
