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Prismatic Ground Presents

Remote Views

15m

Directed by Alexis McCrimmon • 2025 • United States

REMOTE VIEWS is a televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage of the Black-media explosion of the 1980s: a frenetic remix of public-access television, video diaries, commercial mass media, and citizen journalism sequenced as short vignettes featuring musical and poetic performance, documentation of state violence, political theater, and expressions of Black love.

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