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Prismatic Ground is an NYC film festival. Official media partner @ScreenSlate . Year Four May 8-12, 2024
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#NowStreaming
on
@criterionchannl
: 30 short films from the festival's first three years. Ft. additions by
@miryam_charles
@adam_piron
@Sinofuturism
& more, this collection emblematizes cinema's ability to interrogate our world and to imagine other, less destructive ways of being.
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Starting 4/5,
@criterionchannel
subscribers can revisit the inaugural edition of Prismatic Ground through a selection of ten shorts representing the vast range of approaches that defined the inaugural lineup. Big thanks to ALL the filmmakers who made Year 1 a success. Stay tuned.
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Done. Thank you to the filmmakers, audiences, venue partners,and cinema staff who made it happen. See you in 2023.
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Full 2022 Lineup Announced. Click for details + tickets!
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🚨🎞 Year Two is live. Featuring over 70 films and filmmakers, in person and for free online, the first hybrid edition of Prismatic Ground runs May 4-8, 2022.
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📣📽 Prismatic Ground is now🚨LIVE🚨
Enjoy over 80 films spread across four themed sections, two riveting panels, an award to
@LynneSachs1
for outstanding contribution to experimental media, and a whole lot of Q&As. Follow here & on Instagram to keep up.
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Not in New York City or otherwise unable to attend screenings? The festival’s virtual section is now live.
𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 ∞:
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🎞️🌊Lineup, schedule & tickets for Prismatic Ground 2024 are here ~ May 8-12
@AnthologyFilm
@DCTVny
@lightindustry
and online everywhere. Ft. premieres, restorations, parties, a major retrospective and live
@FilmComment
panel, expanded cinema, 16mm & more:
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📣🎬 It’s here: view the full lineup/schedule for Prismatic Ground 2023 via
@ScreenSlate
. 60+ films from May 3-7
@MovingImageNYC
,
@MayslesCinema
,
@DCTVny
,
@lightindustry
and
@AnthologyFilm
.
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Eternal thanks to Barbara Hammer-for her enduring genius of course, but also for the inspiration image behind the PG logo (still from ‘Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of Aids’). And to the wonderful Florrie Burke for her blessing. & designer Kelsey Kaptur for running with the inspo.
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Prismatic Ground 2022 *Opening Night*:
@charlieshack
's THE AFTERLIGHT
@MovingImageNYC
. Existing on a single 35mm print, the film weaves passages from old films into a new work starring an all-deceased cast, further eroding every time it screens.
🎟️ LIVE
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The inaugural Prismatic Ground lineup is live! Ft. a 🔦 on the films of Anita Thacher (w/
@AmyOrNot
in conversation), new work by Creative Agitation (Erin and Travis Wilkerson), an unreleased film by
@rossbros
, an award for
@LynneSachs1
, and 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ more:
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Where
(Tsai Ming-Liang, 2022, 90 min)
*MIDNIGHT SCREENING*
🗓️11:59PM Sat May 6
Light Industry (
@lightindustry
)
🎟️Tickets at door
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📢✨🎞️ *𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏* for Year 2 of 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. Taking place virtually and physically in New York City from 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟒-𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐. Hosted by
@MayslesCinema
and media partner
@ScreenSlate
. Submit here:
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Watch films for free from online anywhere thru 11:59PM ET Sunday 5/12. Work by Michel Khleifi, Antoinetta Angelidi/Rea Wallden, Adam Piron, Liz Roberts, Naghmeh Abbasi, Svetlana Romanova, Demetrius Lewis, Xiaolu Wang, Aminata Ndow, Tamer Hassan & more 👀👇🏾
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📢📽️ Today is your last day to experience year one of Prismatic Ground, a free, global festival of over 80 films. Dive into waves 1-4 at and tune into at 8PM ET to see the 'Closing Night' films by Shabier Kirchner and the
@rossbros
.
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Prismatic Ground proudly presents a preview screening of Fern Silva's 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝐵𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑟 w/
@RooftopFilms
,
@MayslesCinema
and
@ScreenSlate
at Brooklyn Commons Park on Wednesday, October 6th. Free with RSVP:
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Just wow. Here is cinema as solidarity— towards a Free Palestine!
'For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women' is now LIVE, free worldwide in English & Arabic. Donations go to causes facilitating medical, legal, & infrastructure aid on the ground. Work by 15+ women filmmakers! For a month; films added throughout 🇵🇸
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🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 to the partners who have made this fest possible—
@ScreenSlate
and
@MayslesCinema
,
@canyoncinema
for the Ground Glass Award & films,
@OVIDtv
&
@VideoDataBank
for sponsoring films, and
@MicroscopeEvent
for co-presenting the ‘Opening Night’ program of films by Anita Thacher.
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LA☀️Last night w/ Suneil Sanzgiri at Now Instant. Join us SUNDAY
@2220Arts
for Suneil’s new film alongside work by Sarah Maldoror & Flora Gomes, plus programs ft. Nehal Vyas, Basma AlSharif, Razan AlSalah, Isaac Sherman & the new feature by Kamal Aljafari:
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wave ∞ | the future is still bigger than the past
🌐 Free Virtual Selection | Watch Now From Anywhere
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If you pirate independent artist’s films and redistribute them without consent you are an enemy of artists, period. Don’t ruin it for everybody.
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4/11 @ 1PM ET, Prismatic Ground and Distribution Advocates will host a Clubhouse panel on the history, present challenges & possibilities of distributing experimental film & media. Ft. Jheanelle Brown, Greg de Cuir Jr.,
@sarahtai
,
@edhalter
&
@thomasbeard
.
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By popular demand, the 'Opening Night' presentation of films by Anita Thacher- along with
@AmyOrNot
's introduction and post-screening commentary- is available free on demand for the final day of the festival. Find it at .
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🌺 Prismatic Ground is proud to co-present tonight’s screening of CANE FIRE
@BAMfilmBrooklyn
. Anthony Banua-Simon’s stirring personal essay film about family, cinema, and the post/colonial development of Hawaii featured in the festival’s first edition.
🎟
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📢 Tickets for the 5/8 Opening Night presentation of Michel Khleifi's 'Fertile Memory' (1981), restored by
@Cinematekbe
, are now on sale. Co-presented by
@ScreenSlate
and
@Bidoun
, w/ appearances by Hala Alyan & Adam HajYahia. Graphic by
@shdwbxng
.
🎟️
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Christopher Harris's canonical 'Reckless Eyeballing' appears in 'wave2' courtesy of the filmmaker and
@canyoncinema
. You've got just enough time to register for the Q&A at 1PM ET and then watch (or re-watch) the film before joining:
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Geo-blocking only serves to acknowledge the legitimacy of borders, which is why Prismatic Ground will be freely accessible from anywhere with internet access. Lineup announcement coming March 23.
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4/10 @ 4PM ET, Prismatic Ground will honor filmmaker
@LynneSachs1
with the inaugural ‘Ground Glass Award’ for outstanding contribution to experimental media. Featuring a conv. between Sachs and
@canyoncinema
ED Brett Kashmere on her San Fran days. Register:
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Christopher Harris's Q&A is now available on demand. Head to and click the link under 'Reckless Eyeballing' to access the recording.
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𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠
A WOMAN ESCAPES in 3D
@AnthologyFilm
June 9-16
a f i l m b y
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Burak Çevik
Blake Williams
s t a r r i n g Deragh Campbell
m u s i c b y Sarah Davachi
🎟️ Tickets + Info:
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“It wasn’t until I saw Barbara Rubin’s ‘Christmas on Earth’ that I felt there was a film that was made for me.” —Amy Taubin
@FilmComment
@DCTVny
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*Closing Night* 𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝟓/𝟖
@kohlberger
's ANSWERING THE SUN
@AnthologyFilm
. A churning, strobing, cycling rebuttal to that infamous ball of fire, at 60 frames per second. Not for the faint of...anything.
🎟️
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Brilliant minds
@karlthicke
&
@jasminprix
. Watch ‘Three songs without Z.’ online now in wave 3:
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It’s Opening Night! 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔
@MovingImageNYC
is Sold Out/Standby Only, but the Opening Party is first-come first-served, open to all for a suggested donation. 9PM—2AM. DM for address.
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If you missed the conversation between
@LynneSachs1
and
@canyoncinema
ED Brett Kashmere, the recording is now up along with the two programs of Lynne's work curated by Craig Baldwin. Wind down with some personal tales of the SF avant-garde:
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4/17 @ 4PM ET, Prismatic Ground will host a live talk with Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmerman, author(s) of ‘Avant-Doc: Intersections of Avant-Garde and Documentary Cinema’ and the newly released ‘Flash Flaherty: Tales From a Film Seminar’. Register:
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Incredibly grateful to have
@edhalter
and
@thomasbeard
of Light Industry on the PG 'Board of Advisors'. These two have been curating some of NYC's best experimental offerings for years, and starting today they're streaming an all time favorite: Jem Cohen's LOST BOOK FOUND (1996).
Now streaming for free on our Vimeo channel: one of the great New York movies, Jem Cohen's Lost Book Found (1996).
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Watch Now 🎬
Prismatic Ground Presents 📺 On the Channel 4/1!
One of the most creative and galvanizing venues for film exhibition to emerge during the pandemic,
@prismaticground
is a festival centered on the intersection between experimental and documentary film.
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Last night Travis Wilkerson spoke about the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City, just before the 1968 Olympics. He's shared a short film on the subject that will be available through the festival's end
'A Brief History of the Obliteration of Hope':
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If you joined, you’ll recall that Martha mentioned some unreleased work. Well, here’s a treat— available until the fest is over:
PUG ADVENTURES, a sex ed film (!)
‘Western Wild...or how I found wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand’
Going live with Martha Colburn & Pat O’Neill at 4 ET! Messages 1-3 now playing in wave 3.
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Our friends at
@anothergaze
are valiant comrades in the battle for free, worldwide experimental cinema for all- make some time for this incredible work as well!
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*Centerpiece* 𝐅𝐫𝐢 𝟓/𝟔 Travis & Erin Wilkerson's NUCLEAR FAMILY
@AnthologyFilm
. A family road trip to missile silos across the 🇺🇸 reveals histories of conquest, genocide, and wanton science— one clear enduring vision of white supremacy at any cost.
🎟️
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A Woman Escapes
(Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams, 2022, 82 min)
🕶️ In Real3D
🗓️ 11:30AM Sun May 7
Anthology Film Archives (
@AnthologyFilm
)
🎟️
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M*U*S*H
(Jodie Mack, 2022, 8 min)
🗓️ 1:20 PM Sun May 7
Anthology Film Archives (
@AnthologyFilm
)
🎞️ Projected on 16mm
🎟️
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There’s A LOT of premium *Live Action* at PG today— if I can do it all so can you!
Q&As are on Instagram Live unless otherwise noted:
Register for Christopher Harris (1PM):
Register for
@LynneSachs1
award:
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Partnering with Rockaway Film Festival for an outdoor summer screening of an all time favorite— Betzy Bromberg’s transportive nocturne ‘Voluptuous Sleep’.
TONIGHT SUN 6/16 8:30PM (w/ live music at 7).
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Prismatic Ground year one will pay filmmakers and be free to audiences. This model relies on those who are able donating what they can. Help us shift the paradigm: .
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Aidol
(Lawrence Lek, 2019, 82 min)
🗓️ Sat May 6
Light Industry (
@lightindustry
)
🎟️ Tickets at door
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Thank you to
@carolineavenue
and all the filmmakers who contributed to this beautiful reflection.
.
@carolineavenue
shares their impressions of experimental documentary festival
@prismaticground
, at which their film SIXTEEN SHOWINGS premiered in April.
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📣 Opening Night May 3, 2023
@MovingImageNYC
—
HELLO DANKNESS
A Film by Soda Jerk
Tickets On Sale Now 🎟️:
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Darkness, Darkness Burning Bright
(Gaëlle Rouard, 2022, 73 min)
🗓️ 9PM Sat May 6
Light Industry (
@lightindustry
)
🎟️ Tickers at door
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Close, but no Cigar
(Ayanna Dozier
@dozierayanna
, 16mm trilogy 🎞️)
🗓️ 2:30PM Sat May 6
@lightindustry
🎟️ Tickets at door
🎠an exercise in parting (4 min)
👙lovertits (4 min)
🥚A Picture for Parco (3 min)
(+ extended Q&A)
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hello hi
@ghostpnctuation
here! friend, collaborator & comrade of the loveliest
@storebrandbrown
. gonna be spending time today in virtual festival land, sharing some thoughts & reflections. join me! as i revel in sweet cinema and *tread* (one might say) on *prismatic ground* :)
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You can log every film watched online or IRL at Prismatic Ground on
@letterboxd
— . Be respectful with your comments and enjoy!
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📹 Now streaming courtesy of
@eai_org
: Four videos by Anthony Ramos, early adopter of the form and recipient of this year’s Ground Glass Award.
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“I’ve ‘attended’ my fair share of virtual film festivals over the course of this past year, but none has put together an experience as unique and exciting as Prismatic Ground.” -
@hyperallergic
/
@DanSchindel
🚨Last Day🚨 to experience ☟ ☟ ☟
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Tune into at 8PM ET for a very special screening of two films that arose from the production of Benh Zeitlin's 2019 film 'Wendy'— Shabier Kirchner's 'Dadli' + the
@rossbros
'Second Star to the Right and Straight on 'Til Morning'. I'd love to see you there.
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It’s Sunday! Great day to pack the family into the Subaru and head to your nearest missile silo site. Here's the Wilkersons in an exclusive clip from 𝑵𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚. See it at Prismatic Ground on Fri 5/6.
🎟️
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Co-presented with
@canyoncinema
. Register for the award ceremony/conversation here:
⌚️the films here:
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Where Is This Street? or With No Before and After
João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2022, 87 min.
🗓️ 5PM Thur May 4
@BAMfilmBrooklyn
🎟️
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For
@ScreenSlate
,
@saffronmaeve
interviews Rea Walldén and Antoinetta Angelidi on the documentary’Obsessive Hours At the Topos of Reality’. Today 4:15pm
@AnthologyFilm
. TOPOS on 35mm at 9pm! Rea + Antoinetta in person.
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🔥 my ❤️ to finally chat with Sophy face 2 face. Watch the recording —>
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Stay tuned for the full lineup and more! Prismatic Ground is co-hosted by
@MayslesCinema
and media partner
@ScreenSlate
, and will take place from May 4-8 at
@MovingImageNYC
,
@AnthologyFilm
and
@MayslesCinema
.
Subscribe to the mailing list at
🎞️💓🎞️
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three sparks
(Naomi Uman, 2023, 95 min)
🗓️ 7:15PM Fri May 5
DCTV Firehouse Cinema (
@DCTVny
)
🎟️
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New York— here’s your second chance to catch Charlie Shackleton’s fleeting delight, THE AFTERLIGHT
Coming up:
21 Oct 🗽 NEW YORK
@movingimagenyc
24 Oct 🎓 NEW HAVEN
@yalefilmarchive
1 Nov ☕ SEATTLE
@gicinema
25 Nov 🎻 VIENNA
@filmmuseumwien
Tickets 👇
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Happy Sunday! Devote it to a deep dive of LYNNE SACHS: BETWEEN THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION
@MovingImageNYC
. This stunning career survey of our brilliant Advisory Board member
@LynneSachs1
- organized by fest friend Edo Choi- is foundational in the lineage of ‘experimental documentary’.
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scènes de ménage (trilogy)
(Alexandre Larose, 2022, 45 min)
🗓️ 8:45PM Sun May 7
Anthology Film Archives (
@AnthologyFilm
)
*CLOSING NIGHT PRESENTATION*
Three Films Projected on 35mm 🎞️
(Distributed by
@Light_Cone
)
🎟️
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OPENING NIGHT: The Films of Anita Thacher
Tune into tonight at 8PM to pay tribute to the late video artist with a program of six films, featuring a restoration in progress of 𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟 (1986, 10 minutes), courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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*In Memoriam*
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (1976-2023)
Promised Lands
(Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, 2015, 20 min)
🗓️ 5PM Fri May 5
DCTV Firehouse (
@DCTVny
)
🎟️
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*FILM ADDITION*
@t1ffany4scale
’s ‘Never Rest/Unrest’ (2020, 28 min.) has been added to ‘wave 4: kill the colonizer in your head’. View the complete lineup here:
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*CENTERPIECE* STREAM @ 8PM ET TONIGHT: Creative Agitation (Erin & Travis Wilkerson) presents 'Newsreels from the Distant Now', a decolonial conversation on extractions, the landscape of warfare, and the nostalgia of settlement, feat. excerpts of new work.
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It was a privilege to honor
@LynneSachs1
last weekend with the inaugural Ground Glass Award. Rewatch the conversation between Sachs and
@canyoncinema
ED Brett Kashmere and enjoy the two programs of films lovingly curated by filmmaker Craig Baldwin at .
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Last day to check out these wonderful films c/o
@ultradogme
!
"She luxuriates in celluloid’s pleasures." —
@FilmPilled
FIVE FILMS BY ELLIE EPP is streaming for free, worldwide, on our site through Sept 1st:
- trapline (1975)
- current (1986)
- notes in origin (1987)
- bright and dark (1996)
- last light (2015)
Ends tomorrow! 🚨
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‼️Much like the GameStop short squeeze 📈, Prismatic Ground is going to disrupt, mock, and devour its sworn enemy, “the industry”. Submit your experimental documentary by 🚨February 1st🚨to ride the wave 🌊🌊🌊
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𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 @ 𝟖𝐏𝐌 𝐄𝐓
Live discussion w/ Anthony Banua-Simon ('Cane Fire // wave 2), Christopher Makoto Yogi ('Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai'i'), and Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett, author of 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑'𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑖.
Register here:
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Night owls- wind down with
@jimfinn
's languid, exquisitely scored 'The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S. Grant' (good in the daytime too if you're rocking a diff hemisphere). Then come ask him just *how many* feral hogs were at The Battle of Shiloh on IG Live @ 7PM ET tmrw.
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No way you’re going to miss your last chance to see
@thislongcentury
’s patient, earthy portrait of land & labor, ‘End of the Season’?!?! For fans of mushrooms, black & white, Anna Tsing and Jon Raymond. Watch in ‘wave 4’ and catch the Q&A here: 🍄🌳🛠🏡
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Register for today's 1PM ET Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Yousra Benziane ('Nitrate' // wave 2):
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IG Live Q&As for Friday 4/9
+ register for a Live Zoom Q&A w/
@decasia
at 8PM EDT (and watch his films in ‘wave 1’)!
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Exterior Turbulence
(Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 2023, 11 min)
🗓️ 1PM Sat May 6
@lightindustry
🎟️ Tickets at door
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'Experimental' film is for everybody!
Watched Wild Girl by
@decasia
with my 5-year-old three times in a row. That brought the 10-year-old over which led into a discussion about Vaudeville.
@prismaticground
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Opens today
@AnthologyFilm
w/ Sofia Bohdanowicz in person! Followed by a screening of ‘Maison Du Bonheur’.
🎟️
"Woven throughout with mesmerizing 3D sequences, this cinematic brain transplant invites audiences to see through the eyes of their remote tour guides."
@carolineavenue
on A Woman Escaped, opening today at
@AnthologyFilm
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Currency
(Crystal Campbell, 2019, 3 min)
🗓️ 2:30PM Thur May 4
Maysles Documentary Center (
@MayslesCinema
)
🎟️
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Last night’s Q&A with
@decasia
is now available as a recording- just click the link under his films at .
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Available in-person-only at this past year’s festival, Younes Ben-Slimane’s haunting ‘We knew how beautiful they were, these islands’ is now streaming on the
@cinemathequefr
website ~
One of the best films I saw as a programmer for this year's
@Filmschoolfest
was Nous le savions qu'elles étaient belles, les îles, directed by Younès Ben Slimane. I see that the French Cinematheque have it up for free on their streaming site. Check it out.
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@devonarines
spins the most moving web of pop music, protest footage, personal testimony & dancing-like-no-one’s-watching. sincere & camp, disjointed & fluid as memory, Notes of a Wind Chime emerges from the overlap of struggle, heartbreak, intimacy & healing
--
@ghostpnctuation
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Bibi Seshanbe
Saodat Ismailova, 2022, 52 min
🗓️ 5:45PM Sat May 6
Light Industry (
@lightindustry
)
🎟️ Tickets at door
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