Australian experimental curatorial platform Prototype has announced a new three-month season Prototype 2021 featuring nine new short works – including eight world premieres – by 10 international and Australian artists, filmmakers and collectives. Continuing Prototype’s work redefining the presentation of video art outside the traditional gallery space, this program releases a new short film or moving image weekly, every Wednesday, from 28 April until 23 June 2021.  Works will be published online and issued direct to Prototype subscribers via a free e-newsletter.

Alongside the core digital presentation, a number of in-person screenings of the newly released works will be presented at Melbourne’s ACMI during the three-month season, including the Prototype 2021 launch event on Tuesday 27 April 2021. This ticketed event features a panel discussion with curator Lauren Carroll Harris and acclaimed Australian filmmaker Samantha Lang, alongside an exclusive in-person premiere screening of Lang’s work Brown Lake and works from Prototype’s archive by UK-based Sam Smith and acclaimed Canberra documentary-maker Robert Nugent.

Image: Pilar Mata Dupont, La Maruja 2021, video still. Courtesy of the artist and Prototype.