Dirk de Bruyn Movies

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Consists of scratched and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The sonic soundtrack is similarly reconstructed from scratches,...

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

Dirk de Bruyn explores the history of Australian storytelling; the unknown, the forgotten and the lies we tell ourselves.

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

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

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

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

"...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material...

A time-lapse document of a farmhouse in the Netherlands mapping the changing seasons, the light and shadows. Made with an interval-meter fashioned...

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

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

Dirk De Bruyn’s eleven-minute RemmbrME (2007) is a visually engaging film that documents in a painterly fashion the numerous gaps and...

An experimental film dedicated to the "blink". Dynamic abstractions (created through the use of prodigious optical printing and directly working the...