Static Vision

Static Vision HQ

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

Felix | Conor | Eleanor | Ingrid | Jess | Kai

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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secret film, screened at Lido Cinemas with intro Nick Pinkerton as part of THE SWEET EAST COAST TOUR: DOWN UNDER EDITION

Our last Melbourne event kicks off 1pm @ Static Vision HQ today (a four-film secret screening fest, more info on our IG stories etc.) before we head to Geelong on Monday night for our final screening (full details/dates/tix over here).

screened at Lido Cinemas with in-person Q+A with Nick Pinkerton, as part of THE SWEET EAST COAST TOUR: DOWN UNDER EDITION

Our last Melbourne event kicks off 1pm @ Static Vision HQ today (a four-film secret screening fest, more info on our IG stories etc.) before we head to Geelong on Monday night for our final screening (full details/dates/tix over here).

screened at Cinema Nova as part of their Film Club, with in-person Q+A with Nick Pinkerton, hosted by the wonderful/incredible Koko (tysm!), as part of THE SWEET EAST COAST TOUR: DOWN UNDER EDITION

We've got a couple more Melbourne events before we head to Geelong (and we're not only screening The Sweet East) - full details/dates/tix over here.

screened at Union Cinema at University of Adelaide with in-person Q+A with Nick Pinkerton, hosted by the moviejuice crew, as part of THE SWEET EAST COAST TOUR: DOWN UNDER EDITION

We're heading onto Melbourne and Geelong next (and we're not only screening The Sweet East) - full details/dates/tix over here.

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The Sweet East

The Sweet East

★★★★½

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I loved this!!! From the limited number of surrealist films I’ve watched I’ve enjoyed them on the whole, however, I feel the genre really has an issue with excessive amounts of pretentious dialogue, intentionally trying to disorient the audience with no particular goal. I think this ruins the dream-like feeling surrealist movies aim to encapsulate and just irritates the audience, leaving them with meaningless slabs of flowery dialogue and an empty narrative to try and make sense of. 

The Sweet…

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Needs more puppet. Please.