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Prismatic Ground: Wave One

  • maysles documentary center 343 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)

PRISMATIC GROUND: Wave One

Thursday, May 4 from 12-4PM

Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price 



Prismatic Ground, an annual festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film, will hold its third edition May 3-7, 2023, in-person across the Museum of the Moving Image, Maysles Documentary Center, BAM Cinematheque, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, Light Industry, and Anthology Film Archives.



Prismatic Ground was founded/curated by Inney Prakash and is co-presented with Screen Slate



May 4 @12PM 

A to Z (Michael Snow, 16mm, 5 min)

A Chair (Takahiko Iimura, 8 min)

Where do you stand (Tsai Ming-Liang, 23 min)



May 4 @1PM 

Henny Penny the Sky is Falling (Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 10 min)

Tierra de Leche (Milton Guillen, Fiona Hall, 12 min) 

The Raw & the Cooked (Lisa Marie Malloy, Dennis Zhou, 26 min)

Next Her Heart (Anna Kipervaser, 16mm, 12 min) 



Followed by a Q&A.



May 4 @2:30PM 

Currency (Crystal Z Campbell, 3 min)

默/ To Write From Memory? (Emory Chao Johnson, 18 min)

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself (Yvonne Welbon, 30 min) 



Followed by a Q&A.



Earlier Event: April 30
The Land of Azaba
Later Event: May 11
JASON AND SHIRLEY