Collections/April 2024

Prismatic Ground Presents

One of the most creative and galvanizing venues for film exhibition to emerge during the pandemic, Prismatic Ground is a festival centered on the intersection between experimental and documentary film. This selection of shorts from its first three editions, in April 2021, May 2022, and May 2023, offers an eclectic cross section of aesthetically and politically radical work. Highlighting filmmakers whose approach to image-making eschews traditional narrative in favor of abstraction and sensation—and whose techniques span animation, archival collage, 16 mm photography, and digital technology—Prismatic Ground shows how avant-garde techniques can be deployed to confront violent histories of colonialism, genocide, and capitalism, introducing audiences to a cinema of radical potential. The additions from year three confront topics as varied as migration, community, family, and loss with rigorous attention to form and breathtaking emotional power. The third edition of Prismatic Ground runs from May 8–12, 2024.

30 films — 9 on the Channel, 21 unavailable