Since Inney Prakash founded Prismatic Ground in 2021, it has been firmly situated amongst the most exciting (and best) film festival each and every year. The only other festivals that deserve to be in the same conversation to me are Cinéma du reel, CROSSROADS (which had some really strong online sections a few years back), IFFR, Locarno, and maybe two or three others.

For the past two years I’ve been covering the festival remotely (I’d link to those pieces, but…

“Language shows clearly that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging…” - Walter Benjamin in A Berlin Chronicle

Unrelentingly and almost unbearably beautiful, but for what reason?

As this “visual soundtrack” moves through the filming locations of Twin Peaks, it…

Michaël Hers revisits the themes he explored in This Summer Feeling. The aftermath of loss, the unpredictability of grief. Amanda is merciless, but compassionate. It hits you with one of the most brutal and shocking scenes I've seen in a long time—I'm at a loss trying to think of anything that has hit me as viscerally—but it works because of Hers' empathetic and quiet understanding of grief. He allows it to exist with the characters throughout, letting it take on…

It’s been a solid year for Norwegian film. Ibelin, Armand, Elskling, Eksplosjoner i hjertet, Håndtering av udøde, as well as your regularly scheduled Major Motion Pictures™, and of course Sex, Drømmer and Kjærlighet.

As much as I have struggled with most of the films mentioned above, they are—purely on their respective conceptual levels—much more interesting than whichever latest historical or biographical epic that proliferate the screening schedules at our local cinemas every year. It’s a critical truism that we only…