Prizma Expanded is an Istanbul-based production and creative studio working across expanded cinema, genre film, and visual storytelling.

Led by Lara Kamhi and Barış Fert, the studio develops films, moving-image works, and hybrid projects exploring illusion, altered states, and the darker edges of human experience. Its practice moves between art and cinema, approaching film not only as a medium, but as a field where form, story, and sensation meet.

The name Prizma refers to the prism — a single source of light fractured into hidden spectrums. This image has shaped the studio’s visual language from the beginning, informing its interest in refraction, multiplicity, analogue processes, and the coexistence of image and sound.

From hand-made techniques to artificial intelligence, Prizma Expanded works across a broad range of tools and methods, using technology not as spectacle, but as a means to open new sensory and narrative possibilities.

Founded in 2007 as an independent music and film initiative in Istanbul, Prizma later evolved into Prizmaspace, an art space operating in Taksim between 2014 and 2016. The space hosted exhibitions, screenings, and cross-disciplinary projects rooted in site-specific and immersive practices.

This trajectory led to Poetics of Perception at Akbank Sanat — one of the institution’s most extensive exhibitions — marking a key moment in Prizma’s evolution into a broader creative platform.

Today, Prizma Expanded continues this evolution through visually distinctive films and cross-disciplinary projects with an international outlook.

Recent work includes Late Night With Me, selected for Fantastic Pavilion Vertical Cinema at the Cannes Film Festival, and the upcoming feature film Spider.