B B I S M 2

3rd - 31st December 2021

The Bulleke-bek Brunswick International Screen Marathon is an annual, street-viewed screen marathon, rear-projected on a screen occupying all of GalleryGallery’s first floor, north-facing window.

The BBISM showcases video artworks from local, national and international artists. This year we are proud to feature a headline act: video artist, Supina Bytol, with concurrent exhibition HAZARD PROTECTION.

The projection program will run from dusk til dawn every Friday and Saturday in December. With the opening night Friday, 3rd December, 6pm. GalleryGallery Inc. street entrance is at 7A Hope St, Brunswick. Exhibition opening hours are Saturday 10am-5pm or by appointment.

The BBISM has been made possible by the receipt of Moreland Council’s Flourish: Arts Recovery Grant Program 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and extensive Melbourne lockdowns.

Artists participating in BBISM 2021 include:

Fern Silva, USA/Portugal

Fern Silva (1982) is an artist who began working as an editor and cameraperson in NYC. His early films centered on his relationship to Portugal and have since expanded, underlining the influence of industry on culture and the environment. For over a decade, his 16mm films have been screened widely in festivals, museums, and cinematheques including the Media City, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, London, Melbourne, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals, MOMA PS1, New Museum, Anthology Film Archive, and the Harvard Film Archive. They've been awarded prizes from the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Gus Van Sant Award), 25FPS Festival (Grand Prix), and the Agora Post-Production Award from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. His work has been featured in publications including Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, and Film Comment. He's taught filmmaking at various institutions including the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bard College, and Bennington College and has received support from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He studied film at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bard College and is a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.

Annie Edney, Melbourne

Annie Edney is a Melbourne based visual artist currently exploring a reimagined human relationship with Earth in her paintings, using a dynamic interactive process of liquid, colour and form. Her videos, like moving paintings, express our synergy with earth energy at a cellular level. Edney's reading and research is reflective and phenomenological, referencing multi-dimensional felt experience, energetic geology, cultural ecology, social history, personal genealogy and metempsychosis. She has extensive experience creating site-specific celebratory events with community, intended to spark interest in and educate her audiences about our environment. Edney is an older woman and has supported herself with creative practice for over three decades.

Nicholas Currie, Melbourne

Nicholas Currie is an artist, performer, and writer. Currie's practice is autobiographical and introspective to his cultural identity as a mixed Indigenous and Anglo Saxon Australian man in contemporary society. Currie's work are large nonfigurative works based on gestural movements of the body used in dance, manual labour, and sport. Currie's figurative work in sculpture and painting is a mixture of masculine family imagery and still lives with the visual language in his paintings having elements of storytelling as well as invoking conversations surrounding self-identification.

Joachim Lorck-Schierning, Copenhagen

Joachim Lorck-Schierning has a Profesional Bachelor in Sound Design from the school of media- and sonocommunication "Sonic College”. The company Endless Unlimited was established in the lockdown summer of 2020 by Joachim Lorck-Schierning. Its focus is to create media and technology that expands consciousness and promotes positive evolution of the human mind.

Endless Unlimited has its base at the farm "Elskager" in the countryside of Denmark and is a part of the "Birdhouse" studio in Copenhagen.

Supina Bytol

Supina is an experimental visual and sound artist of Cocos Island / Malay / Islamic heritage. Her work explores suburban discomfort through experimental cultural mash performances, surreal and satire video works and in situ suburban photographic works. Disseminating her lived experience, the artist produces imagery that unsettles the defined representations of cultural and female iconography.

B B I S M 1

4th - 31st December 2020

Playlist 1

Building Blocks by Priya Namana (India) [00:52]
six sided storm by Spinach Triangle (Melbourne) [03:01]
An ode to Bushrangers and Buggery by Martin Lee (Ballarat) [04:22]
Sesh Lord Cartel by Claudette Justice (Melbourne) [02:01]
Sunset Park by Claudette Justice (Melbourne) [02:06]
You Look Like My Ex by Lilit Stepanyan (Armenia) [00:08]
Encounters of place by Priya Namana (India) [06:02]
Forever Online by Lilit Stepanyan (Armenia) [00:26]
Breathe by Claire Bridge (Melbourne) [06:21]
We Have Each Other? by Lilit Stepanyan (Armenia) [00:17]
Sirens by Julie Vinci (Melbourne) [03:23]
No Limit by Leila Gerges (Melbourne) [08:52]
A Media Agua by Melanie Cobham and Francisco Sanchez-Varela (Uruguay) [24:14]
Constant Lightning by Rebecca Willcox (Canberra) [00:50]
Geomorphing in The Void by Kachun Lay (Norway) [02:19]
Vestiges of Nostalgia by Priya Namana (India) [02:12]
Private life is Public Business by Jaye Early (Sydney) [35:06]
Is Plenty Enough? by Lilit Stepanyan (Armenia) [00:12]
Bologna Backwards by Rebecca Willcox (Canberra) [01:11]
Rumble Rupture Tear Crack by Thandi Bethune (Sydney) [23:22]
Sprite; Phosphor; Heliconia; The Many-petalled Mangrove; Life Bringer by Miranda Smith (Hong Kong/Melbourne) [05:00]
The Message by Rebecca Willcox (Canberra) [01:39]
Geomorphing in The Void by Kachun Lay (Norway) [02:07:00]

Playlist 2

Flower Girl by Kaz Ceh (Perth) [00:09:07]
The End of Time by David King (Melbourne) [00:04:39]
Pat, The Polar Bear by Kaz Ceh (Melbourne) [00:00:48]
The Day the UFO Probed My Ass by Dal’e (Oregon, USA) [00:02:37]
Stone Lion by Dal’e (Oregon, USA) [00:05:20]
Imaginarium by David King (Melbourne) [0:04:17]
Ronin by John Do (Melbourne) [0:07:38]
Landfish, by Kim Henenberg (Melbourne) [00:01:22]
Six Sided Storm by Spinach Triangle (Melbourne) [00:03:01]
Grab em by the pussy by Dal’e (Oregon,USA) [00:02:08]
Mak by Olivia Mròz (Melbourne) [00:05:01]
Signal by Leela Schauble (Melbourne) [00:08:01]
Ritual Theatre of Death by Anatolia Hecate Karteras (Melbourne) [00:21:20]
Rameo + Bastet by Peta Hitchens (Melbourne) [00:00:37]
Untitled by Laine Stewart (Melbourne) [01:00:58]
Ladderism by Josh Wilson (Melbourne) [00:06:45]