Prismatic Ground Presents

One of the most exciting and adventurous film festivals to emerge in recent years, Prismatic Ground brings together aesthetically innovative, politically radical work at the intersection of experimental and documentary cinema. This selection of shorts from the festival’s first four editions offers an eclectic cross section of vital works by filmmakers whose approach to image-making eschews traditional narrative in favor of abstraction and sensation, showing how avant-garde techniques can be deployed to illuminate profound personal experiences as well as violent histories of colonialism, oppression, and dispossession. The latest additions from the festival’s 2024 edition confront topics as varied as community, resistance, family, landscape, history, myth, and memory with rigorous attention to form and galvanizing emotional power. The fifth edition of Prismatic Ground runs from April 30–May 4, 2025.