Prismatic Ground is a New York City film festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film, co-hosted by Maysles Documentary Center and media partner Screen Slate. 2022 marks the second ever and first hybrid edition of the festival, with physical events taking place at Maysles, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Anthology Film Archives. The majority of films will simultaneously be available free, worldwide on-demand during the festival dates at http://www.prismaticground.com. New Yorkers are encouraged to attend in person; each program will feature live filmmaker Q&As.
Note: “wave” tickets are purchased as a whole, but patrons are free to come and go during the noted breaks. Once sold out, a limited number of tickets for each program will be available on a first-come basis at the door, and seats that are vacated after breaks will be re-sold. All “waves” screen at Maysles Documentary Center.
wave 6: touch me don't touch me is screening in the cinema on 5/6 for $15/$7 reduced.
Tropicollage (Astria Suparak, 1 min.)
Tropicollage is a short, looping video that collages footage from thirty years of futuristic sci-fi movies and television shows that employ a fetishized tropics trope.
Madness Remixed (Rhea Storr, 10 min.)
Contains flashing images. Madness Remixed examines the fetishisation of Josephine Baker’s body through data moshing analogue film.
Her Violet Kiss (Bill Morrison, 5 min.)
A woman attends a party where she is first observed by, and later meets, a mysterious guest.
Infinite Distances (in person only) (Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, 25 min.)
Found answering machine recordings bring voices longing for a receiver into the realm of the theater, offering hope for connection through a collective experience.
BREAK
4:45PM
This Is A Pornographic Film—or,goodbyetoArt (cherry brice jr.,11 min.)
an eleven-minute celebration of masturbation [explicit].
Acts of Love (Isidore Bethel, Francis Leplay, 71 min.)
When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.
