Landing in the Vendée region for the 8th edition of PRISME. As usual, the festival ends comfortably seated in the armchairs of the Le Concorde cinema. For this finale, a visual anthology where we glide from one world to another, moving from micro to macro, from radical abstraction to supernatural narration, always with the experience of a cinematic ritual that transports us as our horizon.
PROGRAMME
INCHOATRACIES OR EVERYTHING IS AS IT GOES IN ANTEROGRADE, Zack Parrinella – Black Hole Collective Film Lab / Fotokem – US – 2024 – 16 mm – 2′
“An antagonizing balance between the existence and perception of things.”
A Shifting Pattern, Isaac Shermann – Fotokem – US – 2024 16mm – 6′
Music credits: Nicole McCabe ….. saxophone Alex Babbitt ………. flute Isaac Sherman …… synthesizers, composition
Please note: This film contains strobing images
“A collected geography of local flowers; appearing, disappearing, reappearing. Afterimage becomes before-image, physiology and pathology at play. An ode to the neighborhood, an entrapment that offers small moments for escape. The will to walk aimlessly is rejuvenated as stasis turns to movement and back again.”
The Instability of Clouds, Zazie Ray-Trapido – Fotokem – US – 2023 – 16mm > digital – 15’
“Two neighbors bond after a shared traumatic event, continuous home developments creep into nature’s threshold, and a community celebrates freedom. The Instability of Clouds navigates a suburban ecosystem in decay and growth while traversing its spaces of comfort, spectacle, and disaster. Through observing and constructing facets within a suburban neighborhood in Southern California, connections between landscape, neighbors, and environment ruminate on the American Dream and its resonances.”
The Kiss, Ian Bourn et John Smith – UK – 1999 – 16mm > digital – 5′
“A depiction of the forced development of a hothouse flower. Organic growth is progressively overtaken by a more sinister, mechanical process.”
Licht und Ton, Jan Rehwinkel – LaborBerlin e.V. – DE – 2025 – 16mm – 5′
“The fascination of painting sound – a composition of visible sound and audible images.”
Super, Natural, Kyath Battie – Niagara Custom Lab – CAN – 2025 – 16 mm – 7′
“Vancouver Island, supernatural by construct and memory, is experienced though landscapes represented by colonial icons, mysterious brilliant fountains, and a curious peacock. A tableaux of sorts, each encounter is singular yet united by stunning and devastated beauty.”
Morphosis, Lichun Tseng & Mick o’Shea – Filmwerkplaats – NL – 2025 – 16 mm – 15′
“A journey in flux—shifting between memory and reality, between past and present—where sound and image move sometimes in parallel, sometimes in cohesion: independent, yet interlaced.
Change unfolds within the process of creation—between us, in us, within this piece—in the continuous, transforming line of morphosis: across time, through time.”