PRISMATIC GROUND YEAR SIX 〰️

HAPPENING NOW THRU SUNDAY 〰️

PRISMATIC GROUND YEAR SIX 〰️ HAPPENING NOW THRU SUNDAY 〰️

PRISMATIC GROUNd

Prismatic Ground is an annual festival in New York City centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film.

YEAR SIX PROGRAM

Today

wave 1 / murder mystery of the mind

Thursday, April 30 at DCTV

EXPLORE TODAY'S LINEUP

TODAY @ DCTV 〰️

WAVE 1: MURDER MYSTERY OF THE MIND 〰️

TODAY @ DCTV 〰️ WAVE 1: MURDER MYSTERY OF THE MIND 〰️

view the 2026 program

CLOSING Night

Gangsterism

Isiah Medina, 2025, 84 min.

Sunday, May 3, 2026
9:00PM at Metrograph

Prismatic Ground closes out its sixth edition with the new film by iconoclastic underground cinema auteur Isiah Medina; a boldly dialectical consideration of racism, aesthetics and filmmaking in the 21st century. "The truth is even if we lose in the history of life, we will never lose in the history of thought.”

Followed by a Q&A with director Isiah Medina.

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.

TICKETS

2026 GROUND GLASS AWARD 〰️

KOHEI ANDO 〰️

2026 GROUND GLASS AWARD 〰️ KOHEI ANDO 〰️

2026 Ground Glass Award

Kohei Ando

Each year Prismatic Ground gives out only one award, meant to recognize an exceptional body of work. The sixth annual Ground Glass Award for outstanding contribution in the field of experimental media is awarded to Kohei Ando.

A selection of Ando’s films will screen on Saturday, May 2, Anthology Film Archives at 1:15PM.