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Inney Prakash

4 years

"Perhaps...without hearing it you shelter within yourself this voice which says, 'As long as poverty exists, you're not rich. As long as despair exists, you're not happy. As long as prisons exist, you are not free.'" - LE JOLI MAI (1963)

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Inney Prakash

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7 months

Killers of the Flower Moon is a great film; it affirms more explicitly than ever that Scorsese has always been telling the story of America, the most vile gangster nation on Earth— and that he understands who still controls the narrative.

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3 years

Criterion and MUBI are great but please don’t sleep on the effort of the countless curators, programmers, microcinemas who are researching, resurfacing, contextualizing, presenting work with far fewer resources, often for no $ & to the later benefit of these larger institutions!

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1 year

For all their flaws I'm addicted to film festivals; I've gratefully built a life and career that revolves around them. Why? I think, in a world that cares less and less about cinema, it's intoxicating to inhabit a microcosm where it's celebrated, revered even, for days on end.

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1 year

Can you imagine putting John Cassavetes through the Sundance Lab?

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

Think I’m nigh ready to retire from the hustle and assume oversight of a small cinema in a rocky coastal town with vestigial gas lamps and a cast of lovable eccentrics, if anyones got leads

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3 years

I wish we could stop framing short films as merely a springboard to features. It’s worth noting that the most exciting filmmaker in the room yesterday, Garrett Bradley, made brilliant shorts even after making a feature— 𝑎𝑛𝑑 that TIME began as one.

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2 years

Might've peaked at 14.

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4 months

Well this is completely fucked! @sundanceorg

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@storebrandbrown

11 days

I was excited to be asked onto the @HotDocs jury early this year— my first in-person invite. At the risk of making it my last, I can’t allow myself to be used by an institution with contempt for labor and accommodations for genocide. Enough. Do better or we will do without you ❌

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3 years

Do not trust the scarcity model of programming/distribution/exhibition— a good film never loses value by being seen.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

I resigned from SXSW as a screener because they asked for a huge time/labor commitment without pay. When I asked why a for-profit org that had just opened a multi-million $ HQ couldn’t compensate workers, I was simply told, “It’s complicated.” It’s not- pay people for their work.

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

Kevin Jerome Everson, Deborah Stratman, James Benning.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

1 year

Three years ago I launched a festival from my bedroom. Thanks to the support of a trusting community of exp. filmmakers/lovers, @prismaticground Year 3 will host 60+ films in person May 3-7 at 5 venues across the city. Here’s the lineup via @ScreenSlate :

Prismatic Ground 2023

Prismatic Ground, an annual festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film and co-presented by Screen Slate, will hold its third edition May 3-7, 2023, in-person across the Museum...

www.screenslate.com

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Inney Prakash

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6 months

Amid all the world’s interconnected horrors, a Uyghur filmmaker whose work I’ve been proud to show has been detained and physically tortured by the Chinese government on absurd charges of terrorism. Please join the call to Free Ikram Nurmehmet.

Uyghur film-maker claims he was tortured by authorities in China

Ikram Nurmehmet, a director known for his Uyghur protagonists, is facing charges related to ‘separatism’ and ‘terrorism’

www.theguardian.com

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

3 years

🚨📽️📢 I've worked for film festivals for 6 years. None of them were *quite* to my taste, so I started my own. It's called @prismaticground , and it's coming at you April 8-18, in partnership w/ @MayslesCinema and @ScreenSlate . You can view the lineup here:

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2 years

📢 During the pandemic I started a low/no-budget film festival called @prismaticground with the goal of making experimental/documentary work accessible to more people. Starting today, you can stream 10 shorts from the inaugural lineup on @criterionchannl .

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2 months

I feel disappointed, angered, and alienated by the public silence of people I considered friends and colleagues. Business as usual is the bullhorn of white supremacy in this moment. Every day I think I’ll lose my mind but somehow I still feel more lucid than ever. Free Palestine.

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3 years

The people’s cinema is back. Catch us all summer on Malcolm X Blvd.

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3 years

Directors: Value your producers. Recognize & appreciate the work they do, creatively as well as logistically; don’t let them go uncompensated; and don’t leave them behind when you’re offered larger projects once they’ve helped make your first movie a hit.

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2 years

Excited for Neon’s plan to erase all traces of Memoria ever having existed, thereby forcing those who already saw it to question the ontological certainty of their own perceptions and completing the filmmaker’s true vision.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

3 years

Hey friends, 𝙄 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥. Earlier this year I launched a film festival called Prismatic Ground. Thousands tuned in from around the world to watch experimental films. I want to make Yr 2 a reality, but it’s going to take💲 🙏🏾 Give + Share

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@storebrandbrown

1 month

I’m honored to partner with Criterion for another year of @prismaticground shorts on the channel, and endlessly grateful to the brilliant artists that have trusted me to represent me their work. These films move, inspire and keep my ♥️ for cinema alive. 🙏🏾 as ever to @_Ash_Clark .

Criterion Channel

@criterionchannl

1 month

Coming to the Criterion Channel in April: @prismaticground Presents! 💜

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7 months

Criticisms and qualifications from the Osage community should be heeded, however. To me, Scorsese’s characteristic candor with violence is questionable in this context. I’m curious whether that was discussed with consultants and how.

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

Before the Sight&Sound drop, I must confess that I cowardly swapped a film from my personal list at the last minute. Upon reflection I stand by it: James Cameron's 𝑻𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒄— the last non-franchise film to top the global box office— is one of the greatest films of all time.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

7 months

Through landmark exhibitions & the donation of her collection to the Library of Congress, not to mention her early scholarship on Oscar Micheaux, Pearl Bowser single handedly ensured so much Black American cinema would not and will not go unseen/unappreciated. RIP.

Alfreda's Cinema

@AlfredasCinema

8 months

I’m deeply saddened to inform you on Ms. Pearl Bowser’s return to the earth… Pearl Bowser became an ancestor on Sunday, the 17th, 2023. She is remembered by her daughter, Gillian Bowser. Asè🕊️ (1931-2023)

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

And here it is, the FULL LINEUP + TICKETS for Year 2 of @prismaticground — co-hosted by media partner @ScreenSlate and @MayslesCinema , and featuring over 70 films + filmmakers. Live in New York City and online everywhere from May 4-8, 2022. See you there.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

🚨🎞 Every Thursday in October: @MayslesCinema presents 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐥. Four programs organized by the master himself, featuring work from 1997-2020. This will sell out, so get your tickets now:

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@storebrandbrown

3 months

Love this passage, among others: (Suneil is not just talk— he’s still one of the only filmmakers who’s withdrawn his film from the Berlinale @strikegermany )

Metrograph

@Metrograph

3 months

"That’s a through line in these works: how is history weaponized? How is memory erased?" 📓Today in the Journal: @devikagirgayi interviews filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri.

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1 year

Every store is sold out of EO the donkey? Have to get an Eeyore and tell my kid it’s EO??

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

I fear I inspired too many young cinephiles with my recent tweet about festivals. It’s important to note the downsides of this lifestyle, or what we call ‘precarity’: perpetual financial & employment insecurity, abuses of labor, zero boundaries, rapidly deteriorating vision, etc.

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

I owe so many so much, but am completely eviscerated— please know that I’m grateful. Thank you to all who have supported @prismaticground in various ways, and especially to the filmmakers for trusting me with your work. More soon.

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

I have hired an Apichatpong Weerasethakul impersonator to attend the Maysles screening of Memoria on 5/13

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@storebrandbrown

4 months

As festival season kicks off, remember that Indiewire, Deadline & SXSW (yes, the festival itself)— along with Artforum and many other brands— are all owned by genocide cheerleaders @PenskeMedia

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2 months

I look forward to attending True/False for the first time to be in community with colleagues who understand the priority of the moment.

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

I’m going on furlough from @MayslesCinema . Reality bites. My brilliant colleague @ghostpnctuation will hold it down down part time. I’d love if you came out for my last program, Sun. @ 7, which I’m honored will be a showcase for the work of Miryam Charles. Big 🙏🏾 to Oyster Films.

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3 years

Gauging interest in a secret 16mm cine club

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3 years

See that box? It holds a 16mm print of Cinda Firestone’s ‘Attica’ (1974). Screening soon @MayslesCinema …

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2 months

“The solitude of the cinephile has an asocial side that poorly prepares one for the seriousness of political work and the modesty of activism.” — Serge Daney (translated by Nicholas Elliott)

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

🎬 Best thing I did on twitter was launch an experimental documentary/avant-garde film festival called @prismaticground . Year three is coming up May 3-7. You can submit your film or donate at . BIPOC+ & analog filmmakers especially encouraged. All welcome.

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9 months

Filmmakers: sending programmers those vimeo links where you can tell when they're opened is surveillance capitalism

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2 years

Either documentaries or ethics have got to go

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3 months

Today is my first day as a college professor. I hope my students don’t cancel me.

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2 years

📢✨🎞️ *𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧* for Year 2 of @prismaticground . Taking place virtually and physically in New York City from 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟒-𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐. Hosted by @MayslesCinema and media partner @ScreenSlate . Submit here:

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@storebrandbrown

3 months

If you work in film— making, programming, distributing, exhibition, tearing tickets or cleaning bathrooms— I highly urge you to sign this letter making clear to the institutions we serve that we’re not putting up with business as usual during a genocide. #FilmWorkersForPalestine

Film Workers For Palestine

@FW4Palestine

3 months

🎬 We are a group of 700+ counting filmworkers demanding a ceasefire, an end to the criminalization of being pro-Palestine & urging filmmakers to use their platforms to highlight the Palestinian struggle! 🍉 Read —> Sign—> Join #FilmWorkersForPalestine

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7 months

An aspiring programmer yesterday told me they follow me on here and asked what it’s like to be “established”. In case I’ve projected too rosy an image please let me clarify: I have $ks on a credit card, half a job, deteriorating eyesight, terminally single. But hey I do love it.

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3 years

For me, durational cinema gets closest to erasing the lines between cinema as representation of reality, the act of watching, and living/breathing. My mind wandered during ‘Ten Skies’- the way it does while meditating- but there were also moments of total bliss & transcendence ⛅️

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1 year

It's fair game to ask "Why is this film in black and white?", but so should you ask "Why is this film in color?"

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

FWIW: ~63% of the films in Prismatic Ground’s 2022 lineup were blind, unsolicited submissions by filmmakers who had not played the fest before.

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

Writer friends/followers— if you believe in Prismatic Ground, I need your help! With no PR team, I’m at a huge disadvantage. Any coverage on the festival, anywhere, would be a huge help. Feel free to get in touch for advance access to the films.

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@storebrandbrown

2 months

Don’t let all this “the Army sponsors @sxsw ” talk distract from the fact that *blinks rapidly to make sure I’m not hallucinating* the CIA also sponsors @sxsw

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

This makes my heart explode

Variety

@Variety

2 years

Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes’ Louverture Films Expands Into Television, Appoints New Partners (EXCLUSIVE)

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@storebrandbrown

8 months

Great to see this happening. If you’re unfamiliar, get ready to fall in love. Also note how much more feasible it is to host a comprehensive retrospective when the filmmaker has remained doggedly independent and retained ownership of their work.

Criterion Collection

@Criterion

8 months

🖤 Our 30-film Hal Hartley retrospective is coming to @criterionchannl tomorrow! This comprehensive collection of Hartley's work offers a chance to immerse yourself in the droll, effortlessly cool, bracingly humanist work of an artist in a league of his own. 🖤 @PossibleFilms

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

One the primary goals in starting Prismatic Ground was making experimental work more accessible to more people— in a way that Criterion made “arthouse” films accessible for me as a kid in Michigan. Grateful to them for making space to highlight such visionary, singular artists ✨

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

NYC: Don’t go to the movies until- at the very least- cinema workers are cleared for and able to receive vaccinations. It’s unfortunate that some theaters have chosen to rush ahead of employee safety, but that doesn’t mean we have to be complicit.

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@storebrandbrown

2 years

Stop. Showing. 16mm framelines. For no reason.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

As curators/programmers we should be invested in the labor and production ethics of the work we show.

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

🎞️ So many 2022 short film premieres worth watching; I threw down a few for @FilmComment .

The Best Short Films of 2022

Good things, small packages: curator and critic Inney Prakash list the best short films of the year

www.filmcomment.com

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@storebrandbrown

6 days

It's live! Prismatic Ground 2024 returns to @AnthologyFilm @DCTVny @lightindustry and online everywhere May 8-12. Co-presented by @screenslate . Dig in, buy a pass or tickets, donate if inclined— and please, if you support this circus, help spread the word!

Prismatic Ground | May 8-12, 2024

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

www.prismaticground.com

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

Conflicted about lists. Fraught, but it feels good to s/o what you love. That’s why individual ballots are where it’s at— the most interesting ones have little overlap, and thus little representation in the top 100. Passion & diversity of viewing > consensus. Consider watching…

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@storebrandbrown

7 months

Tearing up reading everyone’s tributes to Terence Davies. Has anyone so captured the passage of time, the power of memory, the heartache of loneliness? And in the swirl of it all, his love of cinema. His spirit soaring upward on a song. RIP.

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@storebrandbrown

1 year

📣 Building on the collection of films from 2021, next month you can stream an additional 10 shorts from last year’s Prismatic Ground, ahead of the festival’s third edition. Big 🙏🏾 to @_Ash_Clark , Aliza Ma & the extraordinary filmmakers. Cover art: @rajsamfilms ’s ‘Aguntakayan’

Criterion Channel

@criterionchannl

1 year

Prismatic Ground Presents 📺 On the Channel 4/1! One of the most creative and galvanizing venues for film exhibition to emerge during the pandemic, @prismaticground is a festival centered on the intersection between experimental and documentary film.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

I've followed through on my threat to book a fiction @MayslesCinema . Why? Because Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s 'This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection' deserves a big screen engagement in the city. 9/23 only. Prove me right/save my job and purchase ahead!

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3 months

The problem with filmmakers wanting to “use their platforms” rather than divest is that the compromised nature of the “platforms” themselves overrides any speech within them, where all dissent is neutralized/equalized.

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3 years

Reuniting w/ my dad after two years!

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

Some of my favs of late, please share yours: @abbypsun and Keisha Knight’s ‘My Sight is Lined...’, @ScreenSlate ’s ‘Stream Slate’ series, @mediacityfilm ’s Thousand Suns Cinema, @blkdocs20 , @MelissaLyde ’s “Protect Black Women”, @js_film_nyc ’s 21ST CENTURY JAPAN, @museumhomevideo ...

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2 years

Submission deadline for this year’s @prismaticground is coming up Tuesday! If you know someone whose work should be considered, give’m a nudge. Putting my all into this once more— & this year it’s getting 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 (+ virtual). Filmmakers w/ 16mm prints esp. encouraged…

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2 months

RIP Aaron Bushnell

Talia Jane ❤️‍🔥

@taliaotg

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“He is one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known,” said Xylem, who worked with Bushnell to support San Antonio’s unhoused residents. “He’s always trying to think about how we can actually achieve liberation for all with a smile on his face,” said Errico.

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1 year

Disabling screenshots is the dumbest latest privacy move by the streaming industry. Even from a profit-oriented POV, it��s free advertising & expanded engagement.

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2 years

It costs too much to live. Who is paying these rents? Because I’m not seeing these kinds of salaries. Is everybody secretly rich? When the fuck do people start rioting?

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It's @shdwbxng appreciation day. Surely you've read her brilliant Loach int. courtesy @ScreenSlate , now marvel at the poster she made for the @prismaticground Opening Night presentation of Michel Khleifi's 'Fertile Memory' @MovingImageNYC . cc @Bidoun . 🎟️

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3 months

I think we’re back down to just three or four BIPOC staff programmers at NYC arthouses? Not great…

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5 months

What are non-morally bankrupt film people thinking about Berlina*e given the gross, censorious behavior of the sponsoring government? Boycott, disrupt, or business as usual?

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3 years

Would it even be a film festival if I’d gotten any sleep last night? After much daydreaming, plotting, realizing- + sterling advice, friends, peers- and with the generous confidence of many talented filmmakers, I’m proud to say @prismaticground is 🚨LIVE🚨

Prismatic Ground | May 8-12, 2024

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

www.prismaticground.com

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1 year

It has taken me 20 + years of voracious film viewing to come around to Bresson. All I want now are simple & precise movements, and to be devastated by them.

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2 years

Me and @ghostpnctuation got to show Teo to some teenagers today and they said: “I lost sense of time, in a way that’s never happened for me with a movie before”; “Even though it’s a nightmare and I wanted it to end I think it should be cherished for its uniqueness”; and “Big ups”

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A year ago I tried to kill myself. I'm not CEO of a fortune 500 company or married to my best friend, but life's alright. I feel compelled to speak bc it's still taboo. I'm not embarrassed & nobody should be. In fact, if you're well adjusted to this world, wtf is wrong with YOU?

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3 years

Starting a film festival is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. I kept trying to add a “but” to that, but it’s too soon.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

How was I so late on the Anocha Suwichakornpong train? I don't know, but 'Mundane History', 'By the Time it Gets Dark', 'Krabi, 2562', the shorts and now 'Come Here'— brilliant all. A master of our times. Watch what you can.

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5 months

Tmrw I’ll host my *final* program at Maysles. It’s been a privilege to inhabit this space & host so many filmmakers I admire. Come bask in the sensuous, 16mm collage films of Sofia-Theodore Pierce, with an introduction + reading by Leigh N. Gallagher.

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3 years

Thank you.

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3 years

Here's my new favorite shot in documentary, from Sara Gómez's 'En La Otra Isla'— Gómez seated next to her subject, smoking, and listening with the most sincere, unaffected human intensity. You can watch the film + 'Y Tenemos Sabor' for free @MayslesCinema :

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2 years

Muslim filmmakers etc: Would you please admit to and make amends for this egregious lapse in artistic and ethical judgement? Sundance: 𝙒𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨.

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3 months

Happy Opening Day of the Zionist Film Festival @sundancefest ! Is it worth celebrating & preserving institutions that will permit any moral dereliction for sponsorship $? Many seem to think so…

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14 days

Cover art for @prismaticground on @criterionchannl is Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind's 'As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night'. Breathtaking opera ft. a mashup of Mahler w/ Palestinian traditional Mashaal, performed by Nour Darwish. Timeless grief in a landscape of dreams.

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3 years

Man ——— a Mission

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1 year

Seeing La Region Centrale was one of the great m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ experiences of my life. I sweated profusely; I saw God; I thought it was eternity; in a way I’m still there. I’ll never understand art on the level Michael Snow was able to conceive it, but I’ll keep trying. RIP.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

⁉️Did you know @prismaticground pays filmmakers a $100 screening fee? I hope in the future it can be more. If you believe in a festival ecosystem that serves filmmakers— and keeping me out of debt— consider donating. Huge thanks to everyone who has so far:

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

1 year

There’s so much to be said. But for now, RIP to the legend who got on @TheAcademy stage and said, “Workers of the world unite!”

IndieWire

@IndieWire

1 year

Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning co-director of “American Factory” and a longtime fixture of American documentary since the 1970s, has died at 76 after a 15-year battle with bladder cancer.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

There ought to be a night cinema in New York; a warm decrepit cavern where strange lost bereaved souls can bask in the 35mm glow of some sweet oddity like 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑺𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝑩𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒓 at 2AM. No?

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 months

Getting banned after being caught with several @Criterion (sorry) DVDs stuffed in my pants/waistband & a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow (tempting fate). Had to make my mom believe I simply wasn’t interested in books anymore whenever she proposed a trip.

Andy🕹❤️RetroGaming

@LoveRetroBTW

2 months

Do you recall acquiring any specific item or having a memorable experience at Borders Books?

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

1 year

@nyindieguy Disappointed not to see mention of @MayslesCinema — the only art house north of 66th St. Granted we’re operating on a humbler level, but we platform repertory programs, new releases, festivals & provide education, and if that’s taken for granted now it may not be for much longer.

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@storebrandbrown

3 years

Don’t mimic the energy of my former co-worker who ‘admired’ Pol Pot; you can maintain your critiques of American imperialism without discounting the horrors posed by the Taliban. Just remember— you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them’.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

3 years

What will they call us, the ones who follow Memoria from town to town

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

1 year

My romantic history as told by a series of Google Drive folders titled 'Movies for ______'

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒃𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

3 years

Watching Sokoruv, more than anyone, makes me feel that the American disassociation of film from 'fine arts' has robbed us of untold cinematographic riches.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

“It gives me comfort to know,” Godard wrote, “that somewhere in the world, no matter the time of day…there is that little monotonous noise of a projector…in the process of showing a film. Our job is to make sure that noise never stops.”

Girish Shambu

@girishshambu

2 years

At @FilmQuarterly 's online column Quorum, @EricSmoodin traces the fascinating history of La Clef, the Paris cinema that was occupied by cinephiles and activists 3 years ago:

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

11 months

Any NYC journos who’d like to attend Friday’s press screening of ‘A Woman Escapes’ — Prismatic Ground’s first theatrical release — can shoot me a DM. The film runs June 9-15 at Anthology alongside a retro featuring work by each co-director. 🎟️ on sale.

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Inney Prakash

@storebrandbrown

2 years

Sara Gómez in ‘Mi Aporte’. Restored shorts + De Cierta Manera play 4/20 @MayslesCinema . ✨🎟

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