Dirk de Bruyn Movies

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...

An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.

de Bruyn uses animation, optical illusions, time lapse, solarization, hand tinting, flash frames, refilming and flicker effects, accompanied by a...

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...

A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments...

film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz

De Bruyn combines his particular filmic effect/interest (rhythm) with the tangible reality around him. In Homecomings there is an incredible sense of...

The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

East Meets West is an abstract flickering animation that sits precariously between the digital and the analog. The film highlights the luminous...

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...

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...

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...

Poetry video bridging the gap between analog and digital media, enunciating a trace-less trauma embedded in the surface of materialist film. Created...

A timelapse record of Flinders Street Station over a period of 24 hours combining the contemporary affordances of digital video with the chiming...

Frames like de Bruyn's other recent effort Cha-Hit (1986) is an overwhelming film constantly in motion, blitzing its audience with abstract visuals....

A caravan of experimental imagery created from reaching deep in the soundtrack area of analog film stock.

We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various...

An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by...

Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial...

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...