





PHYSICAL CINEMA 2025
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.
reykjavík´s city hall - indoor

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.