Dirk de Bruyn

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz

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

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...

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

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

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

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

WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a...

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

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

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...

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....

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

Feyers is Dirk de Bruyn's most complicated work employing the many techniques he has experimented with over the years. Appropriately subtitled 'a...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"'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...

By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression...

"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. The Pos/Neg...

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...

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 tries to 'destroy time' by the cyclical reworking of a short period of time. Gradually the image becomes less discernible and the flashing...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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