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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 1984
Discs
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An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1998
Schist
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Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).
- 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...
- 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...
- 2012
Click If You Like This
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film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2016
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...
- 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...