NEW NARRATIVES
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
17:00 – 23:00
- Reykjavik´s Town Hall
- Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur
- Nordic House
- Tjarnarbíó
- Mengi
BÍÓ PARADÍS
Hverfisgata 54
23. march – 2. aprIl
17:00 – 23:00
Video installations at the foyer Bíó Paradís
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
25. march
12:00 – 17:00
Benni Hemm Hemm premier music video
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, Helgi Örn Pétursson and Elke Dreier to mention few.
1. – 2. aprIl
New Narratives take over with video installations by international artists, Helgi Örn Pétursson and Elke Dreier.
the projects
mirages
Xavier Curnillon – 7:30 min
Explore the deepest details of the body with this experimental short film that captures dancers in unprecedented proximity. Quebec choreographer Emmanuel Jouthe, French filmmaker Xavier Curnillon and Quebec composer Antoine Berthiaume capture the organic dimension of human bodies in an original way, bearing witness to their strengths, beauties and diversities.
second hand stories
Danielle van Vree – 24:47 min
Second Hand Stories is a film about our relationship to the other and the patterns we develop within these relationships. Rituals we use to shape our lives, or patterns we get stuck in and lead to stagnation. The film is located in a second-hand store. A place full of objects; bits of life left behind by their owners. During the night we discover fragments of stories that could have been lived by all of us.
cold storage
Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Reikallio – 8:45 min
Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a desolate arctic shore, a lonely ice fisherman discovers his prehistoric counterpart frozen in the sea ice, and thaws him out as his newfound soul brother. A wild all-night drinking and dancing party in the fisherman’s tent ensues, but in the harsh light of the morning he must once again confront his own loneliness and dependency. As the ice melts under the foundations of his life, he is forced to even question the reality of the space and time surrounding him.
blind dreamers
B Sandra Ceco – 6:17 min
A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveals a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry.
We discover a couple looking like René Magritte’s lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag.
In research of sensitivity, this video fable question our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it.
We are this living being caught in a trap: how could we forget about it?
enlightment
Lisa Magnan – 3 min
This film talks about identity, autorisation and freedom.It is a story about a woman that experiences a turning point in her life. 4 women are stuck in a room repeating the same actions again and again in a mecanic way.
One day, one of them realises that this life doesn’t suit her anymore when a detail in the room draws her attention. It is the clic, her need for freedom gives her the courage, the strength to get out of the door.
A film that questions our ascent towards the light and our relationship to family loyalties that sometimes prevent us from allowing ourselves to be/do what we really want to.
dive
Director Oscar Sansom with the Schotish Ballet – 14 min
Directed by Oscar Sansom won the top award at the 2022 Cinedans festival. It was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Dance Short. We are so grateful and overjoyed to see the film be shared with more audiences around the world. Oscar joined the ceremony in Amsterdam virtually to receive the award and prize. In his speech he thanked the incredible creative team who made this film a reality including Choreographer Sophie Laplane, creative collaborator James Bonas, Scottish Ballet’s creative director Chris Hampson, producers Beth Allan & Tony Currie, DOP David Liddell and the incredible crew and cast, including a special mention to Sophie Martin who is leaving Scottish Ballet after almost 20 years with the company
uzco
Director: Xavier Curnillon
Director of photography: Yann-Manuel Hernandez
Performer: Jérémie Galdeano Choreography:Vera Kvarcakov og Jérémy Galdeano
2 min
How a moving body, accustomed to the constraints of a space, can evolve when it accesses a larger space, the immensity, the beauty of nature.
on mending
Directors and Choreographers Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern and Emilie Leriche
15 min
“Is healing inevitably intertwined with being broken? Are we not more curious for being incomplete, and more beautiful for being impermanent? We admire resilience, yet resilience cannot exist without difficulties.”
they dance with their heads
Thomas Corriveau Choreography Marc Béland
8:30 min
The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
car in desert driving in circles
Lukas Marxt – 7 min
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape, whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular Inscription. In a performative tracing of a vehicle´s path, Lukas Marxt initiates and documents in his cinematic work, the process of inscription that gives the film its title: a seemingly unmanned white car rolls into the image and begins to spin in eccentric rounds in the middle of the dried out lake. The vehicle draws its circles uniformly, from inside to outside, the squealing of the tires continuously rising. In doing so, the tire tracks furrow spiral-shaped in the desert surface, leaving behind marks in the soil of this culturally imbued landscape – a favorite shooting site for Hollywood films and advertisements, a popular venue for car races and their media exploitation, a site tightly bound to the art-historical movement, Land Art.
a day for cake and accidents
Steve Reinke – 4:10 min
Reinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own. ‘A Day for Cake and Accidents’ brings up the parade of animals that refer to mythology and saga – a double headed unicorn or a sphinx-like creature for instance – as seen before in Reinkes earlier ‘Everybody’.
In a deadpan matter-of-fact manner these creatures state and comment, ranging from simple axiomatic facts (“Today is our Birthday”) over comical philosophical-like statements (“The moon is melting”, “Saturn is cracking”) to completely absurd remarks (“It gives me a small egg, provokes my tendency for coma”). Driven by a thumping techno beat or the snare of a drum-computer plus a nimbly montage, Reinke opts once again for the short format of the music video (not to mention the tons of musical references to pop culture). As the title of this work points out, this brave ‘A Day for Cake and Accidents’ refuses to take a clean-cut position. Not able to choose between fantasy or reality, between irony or melancholy, nor between light-footedness or defeatism, this piece disconcerts and discomforts as it amuses oh so strongly at the same time.
follow the bias
Rosie Dennis.
Choreography: Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White, Viviane Frehner
Shot in the subtropical east coast region of Australia, Follow the Bias is a triptych exploring the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls.
Follow the Bias is a beautiful new triptych that distills then rearranges the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls. Located in the sub tropical, east coast region of Australia.
Shift your expectations with a new multi-channel video work from Gold Coast-based Gogi Dance Collective, exploring the hypnotic rhythms and patterns inspired by the everyday choreography of lawn bowls.
Gogi’s unexpected, immersive performances embolden audiences to explore their local spaces and connect with each other. With a combined 35 years of local and international dance practice, Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White and Viviane Frehner specialise in customised site-specific dance experiences. Key collaborators on Follow the Bias include award-winning film-maker Samuel James, composer Guy Webster and BLEACH* Artistic Director, Rosie Dennis. Commissioned by BLEACH* Festival.