Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004
H2
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Cut down to 16mm from a 35mm trailer for the movie Shaft, the slowed down voice, gunshot explosions and lsaac Hayes' iconic music become barely...
- 2015
East Meets West
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East Meets West is an abstract flickering animation that sits precariously between the digital and the analog. The film highlights the luminous...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1976
Running
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The film tries to 'destroy time' by the cyclical reworking of a short period of time. Gradually the image becomes less discernible and the flashing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...