GROUND GLASS AWARD

Ashish Avikunthak

This year's recipient of the Ground Glass Award is Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak (b. 1972, Jabalpur), whose irreverent approach to mythology, lore and religious philosophy holds a singular place in cinema—in the lineage of "Parallel" filmmakers like Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani, and at times categorized as part of the "Cinema of Prayoga," but wholly its own esoteric, mystical and iconoclastically devotional practice. Read more

Antoinetta Angelidi

The 2024 Ground Glass Award for outstanding experimental media goes to Greek filmmaker Antoinetta Angelidi (73) for her wildly imaginative contribution to the aesthetics of feminist filmmaking, and for her dedication to cinema as a mode of investigation. Read more

Anthony Ramos

Following Lynne Sachs in 2021 and Christopher Harris in 2022, this year's recipient, Anthony Ramos, is recognized in partnership with Electronic Arts Intermix, who held a series of in-person screenings and conversations with Ramos in late April 2023. Read more

Christopher Harris

The 2022 Ground Glass Award recognizes filmmaker Christopher Harris's uniquely beautiful, provocative, and peerless body of work to date— a collection of films which resist the violence of the world by resisting the violence of narrative itself, and which propel the avant-garde tradition in a politically and aesthetically radical forward direction. Read more

Lynne Sachs

Prismatic Ground honors filmmaker Lynne Sachs with the inaugural Ground Glass award for outstanding contribution to the field of experimental media. Read more