Dirk de Bruyn Movies

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

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...

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...

Retracing Karkarook stumbles through the traumatised spaces of Australian suburbia, dredging up layers of denial buried beneath the surface of...

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

Initiated in 1996 and completed in 2026, this home-processed 16mm film was inspired by Marc Adrian’s Total (1968) and incorporates the voices...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. This...

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