Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 1990
Conversations with my Mother
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An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 1984
Migraine Particles
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We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various...
- 1985
223
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"With 223 I used Photographs from my past as a base. It gives the eyes something to come back to from the faster abstract shapes. The Pos/Neg...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2025
Traceless Traces
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Poetry video bridging the gap between analog and digital media, enunciating a trace-less trauma embedded in the surface of materialist film. Created...
- 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.
- 2016
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...
- 2005
2nd Hand Cinema
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A celebration of the offal of cinema, old films, old soundtracks, drawing directly on the film, using stamps and food-dyes to create discarded...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2012
Telescope
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When the British flag was first planted on Australian soil with the words "there is nothing here" the colonisers set up a tradition of denial. This...