Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 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
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...
- 1997
My Blessings
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A diary film, chronicling six days in the life of a woman in her early 30's. A portrait of isolation, striving, rejection and hope.
- 1976
Zoomfilm
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An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the...
- 1989
Between Us
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The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
- 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...
- 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.
- 1984
Discs
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An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)
- 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
Boerdery
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A time-lapse document of a farmhouse in the Netherlands mapping the changing seasons, the light and shadows. Made with an interval-meter fashioned...
- 1979
Feyers
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Feyers is Dirk de Bruyn's most complicated work employing the many techniques he has experimented with over the years. Appropriately subtitled 'a...
- 1998
Schist
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Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).
- 2020
Death of Place (annotated)
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"This annotated version Death of Place is about something that has died but is continually re-gurgitated into something else, that expands into a...
- 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...
- 2014
Found Found Found
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Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.
- 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.
- 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...
- 2004
Analog Stress
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Consists of scratched and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The sonic soundtrack is similarly reconstructed from scratches,...
- 2019
Pattern Recognition
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An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.
- 2014
The House That Eye Live In
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Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film...