
GROUND GLASS AWARD 2025
Each year, Prismatic Ground recognizes one living artist with the Ground Glass Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Experimental Film/Media.
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.
Avikunthak will appear in-person at Prismatic Ground on Saturday, May 3 at Anthology Film Archives to present a selection of his short films courtesy of Light Cone.
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Catch this program at Anthology Film Archives on Saturday, May 3 at 2:15 PM (tickets).