Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema

23/03/2026

Congratulations to BBBC associate David Heslin, whose review of Wabi Sabi Rendezvous (Jordy Po***ck, 2024) won the award for Best Review of an Australian Film at the Australian Film Critics Association award over the weekend. His review was published in Kinotopia to coincide with the BBBC's screening of the film, and can be read below.

Further BBBC announcements coming soon...

David Heslin on an underrated classic screening at the BBBC this Saturday night.

21/07/2025

And so we say farewell for another year. Many thanks to the incredible Factory House Band for their amazing work accompanying last night's screening of The Lost World, and to everyone who came along, spread word of screenings, or helped out in any way. We'll be back in 2026 for more grand deeds and strange adventures.

19/07/2025

Acclaim for Ted Wilson's Under the Cover of Cloud, screening at our microbudget marathon 3.30am Sunday morning! Marathon kicks off 7pm tonight.

18/07/2025

STOP PRESSES!! At our microbudget marathon tomorrow night, we're excited to announce that we will be joined IN PERSON by Rosina Hickman, director of Clear Sky (2019), all the way from NZ!

Rosina Hickman is a filmmaker and historian from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research looks at home movies and their afterlife in the public sphere. Her films, while evoking something of the aesthetics of amateur moviemaking, tend to chart a rather more uneasy rendition of the everyday world.

Set early last century, Clear Sky follows a man and a woman on an arduous two-day journey on foot to their home on an isolated farm. They exchange few words, the tension between the couple becoming ever more apparent as the terrain becomes steeper, the bush darker and denser… yet perhaps even their distant home will offer scant comfort upon arrival.

Screening Sunday 5.20am as the marathon's grand finale!!

18/07/2025

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17/07/2025

As part of Saturday's microbudget marathon, the BBBC is proud to present the big-screen premiere of the definitive version of Timothy Spanos' Mondo Maniacs, a short form series about the adventures of two punks (Maxine Klibingaitis and Tim Burns) on the run after they have escaped from a psychiatric ward. All three episodes will screen over the course of the night.

Timothy is an independent filmmaker whose unique style and incomparable screenwriting skills have earned him numerous awards both locally and internationally. His 2006 feature film, Nancy Nancy, was awarded Best Comedy Feature at the Atlanta Film Festival, and was then released through independent cinemas in the USA followed by a worldwide DVD release. Timothy’s most commercially successful film, Boronia Boys, was released in Australia in 2011 through Metro Cinemas and immediately became the highest grossing Australian independent film to screen there. Boronia Boys was listed in the Top 5 films screening in Melbourne for two weeks. He was proclaimed by The Age newspaper as "the unsung hero of Australian Independent cinema". Timothy was the Dean of the Footscray City Film School until 2022 and has taught Screenwriting at RMIT.

16/07/2025

Our after-midnight screening of Jake Barningham's Nevermore Eleanor (2024) as part of our microbudget marathon will mark the FIRST TIME ANYWHERE this film has screened in a cinema! Here's a taste of the recorded introduction provided by the director:

"I am an amateur and although my limitations are not my 'choice,' they nonetheless can be forged into an aesthetic which makes them practically indistinguishable from choices. This is the exact movie I would have made with a billion dollars, it just so happens that I made it with less than $300 (give or take a few bucks... Mostly give, it turns out).

In life and in my own art I love contradictions, incongruities, colliding ideas, and textures. Anything ill-fitting, odd, or out of place is very attractive to me at a fundamental level..."

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15/07/2025

Currently not available on any streaming platform, Alejandro Adams' Canary (2009) has its Australian premiere (!) as part of our microbudget marathon, screening July 19 at 9pm.

Alejandro Adams made four microbudget features before turning to commercial screenwriting. His bold low-budget inventiveness brings naturalistic performances into meticulously crafted mise en scène. Critics have praised Adams’ work for its auditory texture, visual precision and emotional intensity, with Variety calling him “an arresting talent” and deeming his films “fascinating to the point of repeat viewings.”

With CANARY, Adams immerses us in a cold, bureaucratic world where organ harvesting is not a dark secret but a normalized commercial enterprise. The film offers no traditional exposition, unfolding instead through cryptic dialogue, repetitive procedures and atmospheric tension. CANARY avoids melodrama or explicit critique, opting instead to render its horror through sterile realism and long observational takes. “A must-see. Wildly ambitious and overwhelming. A fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread.” — Karina Longworth

More recently, Adams has penned a feature that will unite the talents of Robert De Niro, Jenna Ortega and David O. Russell. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

15/07/2025

Here's a little about Colin Hodson, writer-director-star of Shifter (2000) screening in a newly restored version at 7pm Saturday July 19 as the opening film at the BBBC's microbudget marathon.

"Colin Hodson’s passion for working in performance and time-based art projects was fueled by working on and acting in productions in experimental theatre with The Wooster Group, Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Penny Arcade, and Taylor Mead, among others, in late '80s/early '90s New York.

Returning to New Zealand Aotearoa, he turned to pre-structured yet improvised film as the medium to continue this exploration of performance.

Collaborating with a circle of friends as the key players resulted in Uncomfortable Comfortable (Campbell Walker, 1999), and subsequent movies directed by Hodson: Shifter (2000), .OFF. (2002), and its later iteration .ON. (2006).

These all had a festival presence: remarkable given their ultra-low budgets and lo-fi aesthetic. These films were heralded as part of the Aro Digital Movement and led to a wave of guerrilla filmmaking in New Zealand Aotearoa."

Click over to the essential Melbourne Independent Filmmakers website for more!

https://www.innersense.com.au/mif/hodson.html

14/07/2025

The Kiss Before the Mirror, screening at the BBBC at 7pm tonight, will be introduced by critic Lesley Chow, who recommends the film in this interview on her 2021 book You're History: The 12 Strangest Women in Music. Here are some of her other recommendations in the same interview:

Genesis Owusu — Smiling with No Teeth (Performer/Album)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Book)

The Makioka Sisters by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (Book)

Slightly Scarlet — Allan Dwan (Film)

Cry Danger— Robert Parrish (Film)

Emma Thompson, Isabella Rossellini (Actresses)

Click the link for much more!!

Writer Lesley Chow discusses finding her subject, wanting to change the musical canon, how she put her first book together, and why stumbling upon oddities is so special.

11/07/2025

And here's ANOTHER piece on Wabi Sabi Rendezvous, this one newly-written by BBBC guest curator David Heslin and published by our friends at Kinotopia in the run-up to our special Adelaide double bill coming up on Saturday July 12 (that's tomorrow!!). We expect a full house, so arrive early to ensure a seat.

David Heslin on an underrated classic screening at the BBBC this Saturday night.