Dirk de Bruyn Movies

  • 1997
    My Blessings

    My Blessings

    My Blessings

    01997HD

    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
  • 1989
    Between Us

    Between Us

    Between Us

    01989HD

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

    Between Us
  • 1998
    Schist

    Schist

    Schist

    01998HD

    Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).

    Schist
  • 1984
    Discs

    Discs

    Discs

    01984HD

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

    Discs
  • 1979
    Feyers

    Feyers

    Feyers

    01979HD

    Feyers is Dirk de Bruyn's most complicated work employing the many techniques he has experimented with over the years. Appropriately subtitled 'a...

    Feyers
  • 1985
    Boerdery

    Boerdery

    Boerdery

    01985HD

    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
  • 1994
    Rote Movie

    Rote Movie

    Rote Movie

    51994HD

    "'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
  • 2004
    H2

    H2

    H2

    02004HD

    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
  • 2014
    The House That Eye Live In

    The House That Eye Live In

    The House That Eye Live In

    42014HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Death of Place (annotated)

    Death of Place (annotated)

    Death of Place (annotated)

    02020HD

    "This annotated version Death of Place is about something that has died but is continually re-gurgitated into something else, that expands into a...

    Death of Place (annotated)
  • 2023
    Schists 2023

    Schists 2023

    Schists 2023

    02023HD

    Could not find a full copy of Schist so I uploaded this, an extended and manipulated version to celebrate the beginning of a 2023 full of holes and...

    Schists 2023
  • 1982
    Experiments

    Experiments

    Experiments

    51982HD

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

    Experiments
  • 1976
    Running

    Running

    Running

    31976HD

    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
  • 2012
    Wap

    Wap

    Wap

    02012HD

    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
  • 2015
    East Meets West

    East Meets West

    East Meets West

    02015HD

    East Meets West is an abstract flickering animation that sits precariously between the digital and the analog. The film highlights the luminous...

    East Meets West
  • 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
  • 2004
    Analog Stress

    Analog Stress

    Analog Stress

    02004HD

    Consists of scratched and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The sonic soundtrack is similarly reconstructed from scratches,...

    Analog Stress
  • 2021
    White Bat

    White Bat

    White Bat

    02021HD

    An experimental animation that draws the micro and macro into stark relation, "White Bat" occupies a no-zone that separates you from your own body....

    White Bat