Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 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.
- 1989
Between Us
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The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
- 1998
Schist
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Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).
- 1984
Discs
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An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)
- 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...
- 1994
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2012
Click If You Like This
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film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz
- 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...
- 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...
- 2023
Schists 2023
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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...
- 1982
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...
- 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...
- 2012
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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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,...
- 2021
White Bat
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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....