The Judgement Hall

The Judgement Hall Festival returns this April for three days of site-specific performance across sound, movement, and cinema. Presented as a once-yearly gathering, the festival brings together artists whose work is shaped by architecture, duration, and attention

This year’s programme deepens the festival’s curatorial focus through close collaboration with artists working at the forefront of experimental sound, choreography, and film. Each performance is developed in direct response to its setting, resulting in works that exist only within the conditions of this edition.

Across two sites — St Barnabas and Rio Cinema — the festival unfolds as a sequence of distinct encounters. At St Barnabas, artists engage directly with the building’s scale and acoustics, transforming the space anew with each performance. At Rio Cinema, film and sound converge through special presentations and commissioned live scores, experienced through focused, seated listening

Day 1 at St Barnabas Church

NYX

Thomas Stone presents 'The Shunned Path'

Day 2 at St Barnabas Church

Abul Mogard presents 'Quiet Pieces'
Paper Bridge Dance Company & RV present 'Raptures'
B.O.R present 'DISSECTION / DISSOLUTION'

Day 3 at Rio Cinema

Neptunian Maximalism Live Score of 'The Legend of Suram Fortress' (Special Restoration)
Gazelle Twin & NYX:Deep England - A performance film by lain Forsyth and Jane Pollard