A Streaming Comes Across the Sky...
Hello and happy Sunday to you, dear reader.
I wanted to point out some neat streaming stuff that is still happening, and share a couple of articles with you.
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Friday saw the beginning of the inaugural edition of PRISMATIC GROUND, a brand-new experimental film festival founded by Inney Prakash. It is a thoughtfully assembled program on a nice website, with a collection of wildly different works, from veterans and new voices alike.
The festival is awarding its first ‘ground glass’ award to Lynne Sachs, who spoke with Canyon Cinema executive director Brett Kashmere in a live chat yesterday. The festival has different webinars, chats, talks, etc. nearly every day, so check the homepage to see what’s going on.
All things Prismatic Ground can be found here, dive in:
https://www.prismaticground.com
You can read Ultra Dogme’s Lynne Sachs interview from last summer here:
https://ultradogme.com/2020/07/02/lynne/
On Friday, we also published our first piece of Prismatic Ground coverage, in which Ruairí McCann looks at Suneil Sanzgiri’s ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ and Fox Maxy’s ‘Maat Means Land’:
https://ultradogme.com/2021/04/08/fox-maxy-and-suneil-sanzgiri/
(more coming soon!)
Additionally, in conversation with Inney Prakash yesterday, filmmaker Christopher Harris (‘Reckless Eyeballing’) mentioned Arthur Jafa’s talk “69”, which I found fascinating, and you can read right here:
https://dizzymoods.tumblr.com/post/173644243530/arthur-jafa-69-black-popular-culture-pgs
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And if you haven’t already, you still have a few days to catch the excellent new streaming programs on Another Screen, the new initiative by Another Gaze, “Hands Tied” and “Eating/The Other”:
https://www.another-screen.com/
(My personal favorite of the bunch is Chick Strand’s ‘Fake Fruit Factory’, but watch them all!)
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On Thursday, my coverage of a virtual Berlinale press experience went up over on photogénie, expressing some frustrations with streaming and the world at large in the current moment:
https://cinea.be/berlinale-2021-covid-the-flow/
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And finally, here are a couple titles I’ve still been meaning to catch up with that might interest you. They aren’t streaming for free, but a rental at either of these links means you are helping to support Maysles Cinema & Screen Slate, respectively -- both supporters of Prismatic Ground:
Małni—Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore
https://www.maysles.org/calendar/2021/3/5/manitowards-the-ocean-towards-the-shore
The Inheritance - https://watch.eventive.org/screenslate/play/6053921db9086800688edb42?mc_cid=18d657aec8&mc_eid=2a42a9c914
and if you enjoy Małni, you can read an interview with director Sky Hopinka by supporting our sister site Cinema Year Zero on their patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/yearzerocinema
-MLP