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Dirk de Bruyn is Associate Professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia where he teaches Animation and Documentary Animation modules. He has made numerous animations, performance and installation work over the last 40 years. His book "The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art" was published in 2014. His recent animations such as "Re-Vue" (2017), "Chanting" (2018), "Recover" (2017) and "Living in the Past" (2018) have been screened internationally. Retrospective programs of his animations have been presented at Melbourne International Animation Festival (2016), Alternativa, Serbia, Punto Y Raya, Karlsruhe Germany (2016) and Cineinfinito in Spain (2019, 2020).
Most Popular Dirk de Bruyn Trailers
Total trailers found: 47
01 January 1989
The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.
01 January 1998
Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).
01 January 2012
film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz
01 January 1984
An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music.
01 January 1985
"...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material to the film strip.
12 August 2014
Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema.
01 January 1990
The roving eye in the crowd. Flickering sunlight. Fast forward. B4 it was seeing faint movement on the distant horizon.
13 July 2019
An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.
01 January 2014
Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial trace was slowly receding to produce a stereoscopic effect.
01 January 1985
"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.
01 January 2014
Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.
01 January 2004
Consists of scratched and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The sonic soundtrack is similarly reconstructed from scratches, pen marks, Letraset strips and the music and phrases of found films.
01 January 2014
The subject of Death of Place is 16mm film's direct on film techniques, migrated into the digital realm.
01 January 1994
"'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 both distance and time can bring to one's private feelings of belonging and home.
01 January 1992
A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments received from "out there.
03 July 2021
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.
01 January 2012
WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties.
20 June 2018
A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.
02 February 2018
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 with, Mike Hoolboom’s Color My World ( 3 minutes, 2017, Canada) A flicker-fest lamenting a lost relationship with narrative cinema, by which it is forever marked.
01 January 2004
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 recognisable and monstrous.
14 January 2023
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 gaps.
10 September 2007
Dirk De Bruyn’s eleven-minute RemmbrME (2007) is a visually engaging film that documents in a painterly fashion the numerous gaps and intersections between analogue and digital moving image manipulation.
31 December 2015
East Meets West is an abstract flickering animation that sits precariously between the digital and the analog.
01 January 1984
An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)
08 August 2017
Dirk de Bruyn explores the history of Australian storytelling; the unknown, the forgotten and the lies we tell ourselves.
01 January 2016
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 flicker.
01 January 1986
Frames like de Bruyn's other recent effort Cha-Hit (1986) is an overwhelming film constantly in motion, blitzing its audience with abstract visuals.
17 November 2020
"This annotated version Death of Place is about something that has died but is continually re-gurgitated into something else, that expands into a stupefied academic rattle, referencing and word play.
01 January 1985
A time-lapse document of a farmhouse in the Netherlands mapping the changing seasons, the light and shadows.
16 July 2019
Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.
01 January 2016
This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving image technology reclaims artifacts and gestures from the past.
01 January 2005
A celebration of the offal of cinema, old films, old soundtracks, drawing directly on the film, using stamps and food-dyes to create discarded imagery.
13 October 2023
A fusion of abstract optical soundtracks from analogue 16mm and 35mm film expanding on the 1930’s Russian experiments of Nikolai Voinov which impacted electronic music.
01 January 1980
The film follows walking feet and progresses to a preoccupation with the dancing shadow of the camera and the filmmaker.
01 January 2024
A timelapse record of Flinders Street Station over a period of 24 hours combining the contemporary affordances of digital video with the chiming bells of St Paul’s Cathedral.
31 December 1984
We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various combinations of dyeing, cutting, scratching and painting the film strip – as well as much of the imagery in Migraine Particles are strongly reminiscent of Lye’s work, with certain key differences.
01 January 1976
An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the film frame) investigate the nature of human optics.
01 January 2012
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.
24 July 1997
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.
20 April 2025
Poetry video bridging the gap between analog and digital media, enunciating a trace-less trauma embedded in the surface of materialist film.
03 June 1982
de Bruyn uses animation, optical illusions, time lapse, solarization, hand tinting, flash frames, refilming and flicker effects, accompanied by a dense atmosphere of word puns, dialogue, primal screams, music and even recycled and letraseted soundtracks.
01 January 2026
Initiated in 1996 and completed in 2026, this home-processed 16mm film was inspired by Marc Adrian’s Total (1968) and incorporates the voices of Moucle Blackout and László Dudás.
01 January 1976
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 positive and negative images force the viewer to stare rather than looking at the film.
01 December 1979
Feyers is Dirk de Bruyn's most complicated work employing the many techniques he has experimented with over the years.
01 September 1987
De Bruyn combines his particular filmic effect/interest (rhythm) with the tangible reality around him.
01 January 2002
By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression vie chaotically for attention with Dirk’s voice reciting repeated words and phrases, punctuated by splutters and coughs, as though attempting to wrest some meaning.
15 July 1990
An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence.
