Static Vision

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Self-funded, fully-independent film screening collective and occasional distributor.

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THE DEVILS, MS .45, F*TOYS and more lead Australian fest

After a massively successful first year, bringing over 2,500 punters to Brunswick West, Brunswick Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is back, with its second edition launching this May in Melbourne. From Thursday 14 May – Sunday 17 May, BUFF returns to the heart of Brunswick with a program twice the size of its 2025 edition, with bold new cinema, and retrospective titles that celebrate the undeniable force of boundary-pushing filmmaking.

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The Sweet East, Hackers and Pi lead new Australian film fest

Australian film collective Static Vision are bringing their latest film festival, Obsessions to Ritz Cinemas (Feb 1-4) and Lido Cinemas (Feb 8-11). A four-day, single-screen, clash-free film event, Obsessions explores compulsion, rabbit-holing, feverish fixations, and the pursuit of the mysterious.

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The Devils, Ask Any Buddy and Terminal USA head to Melbourne

Hello, Brunswick West is a single-day film event showcasing four slices of groundbreaking queer, punk and DIY cinema, presented by independent film collective Static Vision at their still-very-under construction secret Brunswick West screening space, with films co-presented by local film collectives Top Of The Heap, OVA.Club, Gay24 and Trash Night, Saturday December 9th.

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Now Out in Australia: MIFF Award-Winner 'Neptune Frost'

After wowwing audiences across the globe and a critically lauded festival run including much buzzed screenings at Cannes, TIFF, Sundance and NYFF, inaugural MIFF Bright Horizons award-winner Neptune Frost arrives in Australian cinemas, screening exclusively at Cinema Nova, Dendy Newtown and Dendy Canberra.

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New Sydney fest with Noé, Schrader and Maddin kicks off Thurs

Bringing together 17 feature and 10 short films, Metamorphoses is a weekend-long, clash-free, single-screen exploration of evolution, transformation and shifting worlds from independent screening collective Static Vision. Tickets for the festival's Sydney and Melbourne editions are on sale now.

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Static Vision acquires ‘That Kind of Summer’ for AUS/NZ distribution

Static Vision are proud to announce our second acquisition of 2022, straight from the Berlinale Competition. Denis Côté's provocative That Kind of Summer (Un été comme ça) finds three young women probing their hypersexuality during a month-long rest home retreat, a form of oblique and unspecified experimental therapy overseen by a troubled social worker.

Recent reviews

BUFF 2026 Cooldown Marathon

BUFF 2026 Cooldown Marathon
live Q+A with Alice Maio Mackay

CAMP
Liked

BUFF 2026 Cooldown Marathon

BUFF 2026 Cooldown Marathon

Liked reviews

This new ‘Got Milk’ campaign is kinda unhinged.

The Devils
★★★★½ Liked

But Satan’s boy I could never be!

Buff26

The Devils
★★★★

me: the nun with the crooked neck. 
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN UNVERIFIED PERSONAL GNOSIS RUNS UNCHECKED. 
i was worried this was going to be disgusting (bad). but it was in fact perverted (good). 
it’s like derek jarman read silvia federici and yet insisted on drawing inspiration from monty python.

Just as fucking insane as I remembered and then some. Was so good to watch a “pieced together by a mad man” edit that threw the banned scenes back in. 

Truly unhinged. Lost none of its magic on rewatch. 

Shout out to Brunswick Underground Film Festival and I hope everyone is looking forward to my ten thousand Letterboxd reviews this weekend.

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