Dirk de Bruyn Movies

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...

Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).

This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving...

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...

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

An experimental film showing various record covers. (AFW program notes)

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

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...

A fusion of abstract optical soundtracks from analogue 16mm and 35mm film expanding on the 1930’s Russian experiments of Nikolai Voinov which...

"This annotated version Death of Place is about something that has died but is continually re-gurgitated into something else, that expands into a...

Groundbreaking experimental/avant garde travel diary essay film. A reflection on communication.

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

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...

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

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

film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz

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

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

A celebration of the offal of cinema, old films, old soundtracks, drawing directly on the film, using stamps and food-dyes to create discarded...