Dreamy Place is videoclub’s annual event of art and creative tech. Designed to engage curious minds of all ages, and including interactive media, games, dance, and music, the festival harnesses tech and play to explore some serious topics such as surveillance, the environment, philosophy, data, memory, and identities.
In 2025, Dreamy Place lands in Brighton & Hove from 21–26 October, bringing together national and local artists to transform streets, galleries, cafés, and public spaces into sites of wonder.
Highlights you’ll want to check out
A selection of some of the highlights in this year’s programme:
- Outdoor Film Trail with Oska Bright Film Festival
Walk the city under film projections co-curated with Oska Bright Film Festival, spotlighting creators who are learning-disabled or autistic. - Symoné: “Nullspace Motel”
A hybrid performance merging pole, live art, dance and mini videogames – visceral, confounding, emotionally layered. - Both Sides Now 10
A dual-city artists’ film showcase (UK + Hong Kong), curated in partnership with videoclub. Bold, visually striking moving images exploring identity, memory and connection. - Photoworks × POST Photosocial at POST’s new venue
Talk and photo event featuring Marcel Top (2025, Poison Data, Kill Algorithms) in conversation with Amin Yousefi — a deep dive into data, surveillance and resistance. - Play Back Forward
An immersive archival and collaborative exhibition at Hove Museum, weaving together the heritage of early local cinema (George Albert Smith, Laura Bayley, James Williamson) with new creative responses by artists Chahine Fellahi and Annis Joslin. - Glitch v.3
Step into a dim, interactive room of shifting visuals and distortions. The projections bend and respond to your movement – part cinema, part glitch ritual.
Why come?
- Much of Dreamy Place’s programme is free or low cost – designed to be accessible and open.
- Families, curious minds, tech enthusiasts, film fans, and art lovers – all are welcome.
- You’ll discover corners of Brighton & Hove you rarely see, experience works you can’t find elsewhere, and join in the buzz of collective, shared creation.
Want to see what’s happening?
Your next stop: the What’s On page. Dive in, plan your activities, book what’s needed – then meet us across the city in October. Explore Dreamy Place Brighton 2025
Dreamy Place has been programmed and produced by artists’ film and digital culture agency, videoclub. The programme has been created in partnership with arts, culture, technology and community partners from across Brighton & Hove, the UK, and internationally.
Programme Partners
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton & Hove Museums, Brighton Youth Centre / B.fest, Carousel / Oska Bright Film Festival, Corridor, Fabrica, Junction Arts, Marlborough Productions, Phoenix, Photoworks, POST, Screen Archive South East, South East Dance, Worth Ryder Art Gallery & Art Practice (UC Berkeley).
Funders and Supporters
Arts Council England, Bolsover District Council, English Heritage, Film Hub South East/BFI, Govia Thameslink, Legal & General, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Plus Accounting.
