Movies

  • 2018
    Re-Vue

    Re-Vue

    Re-Vue

    02018HD

    Re-vue is a mutilated love-letter to the film’s form in address to the the act of seeing itself. It is shaped as a response to, and in dialogue...

    Re-Vue
  • 2014
    Empire

    Empire

    Empire

    02014HD

    Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial...

    Empire
  • 2007
    RemmbrMe

    RemmbrMe

    RemmbrMe

    02007HD

    Dirk De Bruyn’s eleven-minute RemmbrME (2007) is a visually engaging film that documents in a painterly fashion the numerous gaps and...

    RemmbrMe
  • 1984
    Light Play

    Light Play

    Light Play

    01984HD

    An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by...

    Light Play
  • 2019
    Chanting

    Chanting

    Chanting

    02019HD

    Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

    Chanting
  • 2016
    Dissociation

    Dissociation

    Dissociation

    02016HD

    Dissociation is an abstract materialist film that has migrated from 16mm film to the digital. It is made up of scratches, half-baked images and...

    Dissociation
  • 2014
    The Death of Place

    The Death of Place

    The Death of Place

    02014HD

    The subject of Death of Place is 16mm film's direct on film techniques, migrated into the digital realm. Its story catches half articulated childhood...

    The Death of Place
  • 2016
    Living in the Past

    Living in the Past

    Living in the Past

    02016HD

    This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving...

    Living in the Past
  • 2018
    Chant En Couleur

    Chant En Couleur

    Chant En Couleur

    02018HD

    A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.

    Chant En Couleur
  • 2017
    Recover

    Recover

    Recover

    02017HD

    Dirk de Bruyn explores the history of Australian storytelling; the unknown, the forgotten and the lies we tell ourselves.

    Recover
  • 1992
    Understanding Science

    Understanding Science

    Understanding Science

    01992HD

    A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments...

    Understanding Science
  • 2014
    Found Found Found

    Found Found Found

    Found Found Found

    02014HD

    Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.

    Found Found Found
  • 1987
    Homecomings

    Homecomings

    Homecomings

    01987HD

    De Bruyn combines his particular filmic effect/interest (rhythm) with the tangible reality around him. In Homecomings there is an incredible sense of...

    Homecomings
  • 1985
    Vision

    Vision

    Vision

    01985HD

    "...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material...

    Vision
  • 1984
    Migraine Particles

    Migraine Particles

    Migraine Particles

    01984HD

    We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various...

    Migraine Particles
  • 1990
    Knots

    Knots

    Knots

    01990HD

    The roving eye in the crowd. Flickering sunlight. Fast forward. B4 it was seeing faint movement on the distant horizon. Now the skill is to see the...

    Knots
  • 1990
    Conversations with my Mother

    Conversations with my Mother

    Conversations with my Mother

    01990HD

    An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...

    Conversations with my Mother
  • 1980
    Walk

    Walk

    Walk

    01980HD

    The film follows walking feet and progresses to a preoccupation with the dancing shadow of the camera and the filmmaker. Much of the footage was...

    Walk
  • 2005
    2nd Hand Cinema

    2nd Hand Cinema

    2nd Hand Cinema

    02005HD

    A celebration of the offal of cinema, old films, old soundtracks, drawing directly on the film, using stamps and food-dyes to create discarded...

    2nd Hand Cinema
  • 1986
    Frames

    Frames

    Frames

    01986HD

    Frames like de Bruyn's other recent effort Cha-Hit (1986) is an overwhelming film constantly in motion, blitzing its audience with abstract visuals....

    Frames