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 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.
GODSPEED Klāvs Liepiņš
ABSENCE | PRESENCE Christina Bennett
PLASTICINE Liz Blum
NATIONAL GRID Disinformation
FIVE STONES Paul Vivian
PANGAEA DREAMING Marie Therese Ross, Marcia Teusink
ORCHARD ASYLUM Nicolas Middleton
THE CLOG Fran Hayes
TRANSPORT_ENDPOINT Seán Talbot, Sophia Archontis
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FRUIT Rieko Whitfield, Jesse May Fisher
SCAN MAN Zach Oakman
THE FLATLANDS Simon Lee Dicker, Liberty Smith
THE JOY OF COOKING Coleman Stewart
STRANGE ATTRACTORS Sandra Crisp
WORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS Alex Pearl
THE SIGHT IS A WOUND Parham Ghalamdar
THE JOY OF COOKING
Coleman Stewart
SCAN MAN LEARNS TO DANCE
Zach Oakman
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