Dirk de Bruyn Movies

  • 1979
    Feyers

    Feyers

    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...

    Feyers
  • 2016
    Dissociation

    Dissociation

    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...

    Dissociation
  • 1982
    Experiments

    Experiments

    Experiments

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    de Bruyn uses animation, optical illusions, time lapse, solarization, hand tinting, flash frames, refilming and flicker effects, accompanied by a...

    Experiments
  • 1994
    Rote Movie

    Rote Movie

    Rote Movie

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    "'Rote Movie' is part of a series of works examining aspects of the traumatic experience. It is an examination of decay and forgetting, where what...

    Rote Movie
  • 1989
    Between Us

    Between Us

    Between Us

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    The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

    Between Us
  • 1984
    Discs

    Discs

    Discs

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    An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)

    Discs
  • 2018
    Re-Vue

    Re-Vue

    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...

    Re-Vue
  • 2014
    The Death of Place

    The Death of Place

    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...

    The Death of Place
  • 2012
    Wap

    Wap

    Wap

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    WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a...

    Wap
  • 2004
    H2

    H2

    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...

    H2
  • 2019
    Pattern Recognition

    Pattern Recognition

    Pattern Recognition

    02019HD

    An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.

    Pattern Recognition
  • 2012
    Click If You Like This

    Click If You Like This

    Click If You Like This

    02012HD

    film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz

    Click If You Like This
  • 1985
    Boerdery

    Boerdery

    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...

    Boerdery
  • 1997
    My Blessings

    My Blessings

    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.

    My Blessings
  • 2014
    The House That Eye Live In

    The House That Eye Live In

    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...

    The House That Eye Live In
  • 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
  • 2016
    Living in the Past

    Living in the Past

    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...

    Living in the Past
  • 1976
    Running

    Running

    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...

    Running
  • 1976
    Zoomfilm

    Zoomfilm

    Zoomfilm

    01976HD

    An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the...

    Zoomfilm
  • 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