Movies
- 2018
Re-Vue
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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...
- 2014
Empire
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Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial...
- 2007
RemmbrMe
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Dirk De Bruyn’s eleven-minute RemmbrME (2007) is a visually engaging film that documents in a painterly fashion the numerous gaps and...
- 1984
Light Play
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An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by...
- 2019
Chanting
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Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.
- 2016
Dissociation
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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...
- 2014
The Death of Place
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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...
- 2016
Living in the Past
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This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving...
- 2018
Chant En Couleur
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A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.
- 2017
Recover
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Dirk de Bruyn explores the history of Australian storytelling; the unknown, the forgotten and the lies we tell ourselves.
- 1992
Understanding Science
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A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments...
- 2014
Found Found Found
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Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.
- 1987
Homecomings
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De Bruyn combines his particular filmic effect/interest (rhythm) with the tangible reality around him. In Homecomings there is an incredible sense of...
- 1985
Vision
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"...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material...
- 1984
Migraine Particles
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We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various...
- 1990
Knots
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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...
- 1990
Conversations with my Mother
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An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...
- 1980
Walk
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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...
- 2005
2nd Hand Cinema
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A celebration of the offal of cinema, old films, old soundtracks, drawing directly on the film, using stamps and food-dyes to create discarded...
- 1986
Frames
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Frames like de Bruyn's other recent effort Cha-Hit (1986) is an overwhelming film constantly in motion, blitzing its audience with abstract visuals....