Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 2014
Found Found Found
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Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 2012
Click If You Like This
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film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1986
Frames
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Frames like de Bruyn's other recent effort Cha-Hit (1986) is an overwhelming film constantly in motion, blitzing its audience with abstract visuals....
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1990
Knots
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The roving eye in the crowd. Flickering sunlight. Fast forward. B4 it was seeing faint movement on the distant horizon. Now the skill is to see the...
- 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...
- 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...