NEW NARRATIVES 2023

Stockfish Festival is happy to invite Physical Cinema Festival programmer Helena Jónsdóttir to compile a program we call NEW NARRATIVES – creative films and video art. The program is a combination of physical performance, visual arts, sound design, music and cinema together in an exciting mix. The short films and installations are innovative and refreshing in their approach. Some films have un- and conventional storylines, some are abstract, and other installations deconstruct or render a poetic experience of time and space. Celebrating the creativity in the field of film and video with the audience. The works are created by well known film- and video artists around the world. Majority of the program has never been screened in Iceland and we have several premiers. Collaboration with the Icelandic Film Museum where we will screen hidden treasures. The video installations and films are screened in the cinema rooms at Bio Paradís, and as video installations in Bió Paradís, Instillations at Reykjavík City hall, The nordic house and Tjarnarbíó. At Mengi there will be live concerts with projections. Outdoor projections will be at several places in the center of Reykjavík City during the festival dates. Over 20 works will be screened at the festival.

outdoor screenings

Outdoor screenings around the town

23. marCH – 2. aprIL
20:00 – 23:00
  • Reykjavik´s Town Hall – Snapshots from the Icelandic Film Archive by Óskar Gíslason and Hannes Pálsson
  • Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur – Slave Unit by Cel Crabeels
  • Tjarnarbíó – Nature See You by Erik Bunger
  • Mengi (23. -26. mars and 30.mars – 2. april) – Ego by Nicolas Provost
city hall
23. marCH – 2. aprIL
10:00 – 18:00

3 video installations in Reykjavík´s City Hall. Art by Teresa Cos and Cel Crabeels.

BÍÓ PARADÍS

Hverfisgata 54

23. march – 2. aprIl
17:00 – 23:00

Video installations at the foyer Bíó Paradís. Art by Lukas Marxt, Steve Reinke, Samuel James and Rosie Dennis.

25. march
19:00 – ROOM 2
Dance and film

International program with award winning films 

A collaboration with Cinedans EYE filmmuseum

Amsterdam, Argos centre for audiovisual arts in Brussel and selected films from France, Finland, Holland, Scotland, Belgium and Canada

MENGI

Óðinsgata 2

23.-25. march & 30.-31. march
12:00 – 18:00

Video installations by Xavier Curnillon and Thomas Corriveau

25. march
12:00 – 17:00 

Benni Hemm Hemm premier music video and other works.

29. march
20:00

International Piano day with Miro Kepinski,
Sævar Jóhansson and Eðvarð Egilsson with video art from Physical Cinema       https://www.pianoday.org/     

31. march
20:00

Special concert with Agalma Improv Ensemble with selected works from Physical Cinema Fest

THE NORDIC HOUSE

Sæmundargata 11

23. marCH – 2. aprIl

Video installations by international artists Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Reikallio, Erik Bunger and Sandra Ceco. Opening hours same as the house.

1. – 2. aprIl

New Narratives take over with video installations by international artists, Helgi Örn Pétursson, Elke Dreier, Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Reikallio and Sandra Ceco. 

Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir will be present in the Greenhouse.

Bíó paradís

mirages

second hand stories

cold storage

blind dreamers

enlightment

dive

uzco

on mending

they dance with their heads

car in desert driving in circles

a day for cake and accidents

follow the bias

MENGI

BENNI HEMM HEMM

international piano day

Special concert with Agalma IMPROV Ensemble

the nordic house

Explanation and Some Clouds

NATURE SEE YOU

COLD STORAGE

VESTDALSSFOSS

reykjavík´s city hall - outdoor

BIRTHDAY PARTY

CHILDREN DANCING AROUND BLUE LIGHTS

animals and children

reykjavík´s city hall - indoor

astrology of a friday

topologic 

slave unit

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