Steven Eastwood

Steven Eastwood is an artist-filmmaker whose work often involves developing innovative form and participatory / co-creation methodologies. His third feature, The Stimming Pool (2024), was co-created with The Neurocultures Collective, released in UK cinemas by Dartmouth Films in 2024 and won the 2025 BFI Chanel Award. His second feature film ISLAND  (2018) had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2018 and a theatrical release in the UK later that year. The sister artwork The Interval and the Instant (2017) is a multiscreen video installation commissioned by Fabrica. His first feature Buried Land (2010) was officially selected for Tribeca, Moscow, Mumbai, Goteborg film festivals 2010. His documentary Those Who Are Jesus was nominated for a Grierson Award. Eastwood has screened and exhibited internationally. He has published widely and is currently Professor of Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.  His current projects include exploring intensive care decision conflict (Critical Seeing), an eco horror fiction film, and mining a live art film archive. He has been funded by BFI, Film London, Arts Council England, AHRC, Wellcome Trust, UKRI. He is a trustee of The Stuart Croft Foundation. He lives and works in London.