Dirk de Bruyn Movies
- 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,...
- 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...
- 2018
Chant En Couleur
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A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.
- 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
Understanding Science01992HD
A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments...
- 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...
- 2014
The Death of Place
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The subject of Death of Place is 16mm film's direct on film techniques, migrated into the digital realm. Its story catches half articulated childhood...
- 2021
White Bat
White Bat02021HD
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....
- 2019
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition02019HD
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...
- 2019
Chanting
Chanting02019HD
Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.
- 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....
- 2018
Re-Vue
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Re-vue is a mutilated love-letter to the film’s form in address to the the act of seeing itself. It is shaped as a response to, and in dialogue...
- 1985
Vision
Vision01985HD
"...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material...
- 2014
Found Found Found
Found Found Found02014HD
Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.
- 1984
Migraine Particles
Migraine Particles01984HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...