BRUNSWICK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL – interview with Festival Director Felix Hubble
by GREG KING
The inaugural edition of the Brunswick Underground Film Festival (BUFF) kicks off in Brunswick West from Friday 30 May – Sunday 1 June, 2025. From the minds behind cult cinema collective Static Vision, BUFF seeks to provide a much-needed home for forward-thinking, transgressive and independent cinema. From Friday 30 May – Sunday 1 June, BUFF will screen at the neighbouring venues Estonian House (43-45 Melville Road) and Static Vision HQ (47 Melville Road), taking over the precinct in Brunswick West.
The festival screens across three screens and three days and will showcase 36 feature films, 25 shorts and 17 retro screenings, including World Premiere and Australian Premiere features, anniversary screenings and emerging filmmakers’ newest works. Three days of high-quality, forward-thinking, underground, cult, schlock and trash cinema. Amongst the retrospective program is a screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film Strike! BUFF opens with a triple feature of Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006) and Jackass 3D (2010) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise. Acclaimed and fiercely independent Ukrainian-American writer/director/actor Eugene Kotlyarenko’s latest feature, The Code (2024), will have its Victorian Premiere at BUFF Closing Night.
Greg caught up with the festival director Felix Hubble to learn more about the festival, the screenings and the selection of films.
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