Archive: Year Five

Mar 26

Written By Shira Golden

April 30-May 4, 2025 〰️

Anthology Film Archives 〰️

BAM 〰️

Light Industry 〰️

Metrograph 〰️

April 30-May 4, 2025 〰️ Anthology Film Archives 〰️ BAM 〰️ Light Industry 〰️ Metrograph 〰️

2025 GROUND GLASS AWARD

Ashish Avikunthak

Prismatic Ground awarded the fifth annual Ground Glass Award for outstanding contribution in the field of experimental media to Ashish Avikunthak.

wave 1 / your touch makes others invisible / Wed, April 30

Wave 1: Program 1

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by Q&A.

Palestine Vaincra (Palestine Will Win)

Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

Wave 1: Program 2

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

A Black Screen Too (16mm)

Adieu Ugarit

Winter Portrait

Buseok

How He Died is Not Controversial

Empty Rider

wave 2 / may the soil be everywhere / Thur, May 1

Wave 2: Program 1

📍 Brooklyn Academy of Music

Co-presented by UnionDocs.
Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.

May the Soil Be Everywhere

Wave 2: Program 2

📍 Brooklyn Academy of Music

Rhythm of a Flower

wave 3 / as a matter of fact / Fri, May 2

Wave 3: Program 1

📍 Light Industry

16mm Expanded Cinema Performance

Thunderland, as a matter of fact (Y'a Matière au Pays des Éclairs)

Wave 3: Program 2

📍 Light Industry

Followed by Q& A with the filmmakers + a cocktail party for film attendees.

The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon

Half Halt

All Said Done

Concrete Resources

Remote Views

wave 4 / make it white with a long tail / sat, may 3

Wave 4: Program 1

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Bhavantarana (Immanence) (35mm)

Wave 4: Program 2

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

Center (16mm)

endings

typhoon diary 风球日记

Adrift Potentials

The World Doesn’t End When You Do

Go Between (16mm)

受难日/Good Friday

Las Animas (16mm)

Wave 4: Program 3

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Some Strings Pts. I & II

Wave 4: Program 4

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Featuring the work of 2025 Ground Glass Award recipient, Ashish Avik. Followed by Q&A.

Dancing Othello (Brihannala Ki Khelkaki) (16mm)

Vakratunda Swaha (35mm)

Antaral (End Note) (16mm)

Kalighat Athikatha (Kalighat Fetish) (16mm)

Wave 4: Program 5

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by Q&A

Tuktuit

To the Moon

Wave 4: Program 6

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Heart Shaped

Contact Lens / 河马皮肤

Wave 4: Program 7

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by a discussion with Ashish Avikunthak on the life and work of Kumar Shahani.

Birah Bharyo Ghar Aangan Kone (The Bamboo Flute) (35mm)

Wave 4: Program 8

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Necessary Trip

Underground

Wave 4: Program 9

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Courtney Stephens and Shiv Kotecha present Films and Poems from the Fifth Season

Wave 4: Program 10

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Kasba (35mm)

wave 5 / a body to live in / sun, may 4

Wave 5: Program 1

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Some Strings Pts. III & IV

Wave 5: Program 2

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Khayal Gatha (The Khayal Saga) (35mm)

Wave 5: Program 3

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by an extended Q&A with the filmmaker.

Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above

It's Just Business, Baby

Bounded Intimacy

Wave 5: Program 4

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Hemel

The Swallow

Wave 5: Program 5

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker

A Message From Humboldt (16mm)

Translating one's own (or the symptom to be remembered)

Wave 5: Program 6

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Co-presented by Tone Glow

Artist Spotlight: Cho Seoungho

Wave 5: Program 7

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Some Strings Pts. V & VI

CLOSING NIGHT PRESENTATION

📍 Anthology Film Archives

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker

A Body to Live In

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