Sluice Film 2025
The first Sluice Film Festival will launch during Sluice Seyðisfjörður 2025, in eastern Iceland at the Herðubíó cinema and will be the key space for artists working with film and video to engage with the theme of World-Building.
The theme of the 2025 Sluice Film Festival (and Expo) looks to the creation of other, speculative-until-summoned worlds. These worlds are a chimera, falling apart just as easily as they fall together. The theme is a jumping-off point to explore our relationship with the world, and the stories we tell ourselves about our place within it.
When
23 – 25 May 2025
Where
Herðubíó cinema, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
What
Artist films (5 – 10 mins), on the theme of world-building.
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Who
Sluice Film is directed by Sarah Wishart and Karl England.
Sluice Film 2025 is presented in partnership with LungA School and Herðubíó cinema, with help from Filmfreeway and The Ark.
2025 Judges
David Blandy
David Blandy makes videos, games, sound and ephemera, deconstructing forms to put them back together again. David is an artist examining global structures of control and networks of resistance, in areas that range from ecology, history and science to arenas of play. Sifting through multiple forms of archive, from historic texts to academic archives, archaeology and ecological theory, twitch streams and film archives; Blandy weaves poetic works that explore the complexities of the contemporary subject.
Kamilla Gylfadóttir
Kamilla Gylfadóttir a filmmaker / archivist working with images and text, moving and still, own and found. Intuitively experiencing, collecting and preserving for later mixing. Exploring boundaries on borders of documentary and fiction. Kamilla co-founded the Icelandic home movie collective in 2020 which has uncovered Icelandic home movies and hosted community events around the country.
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