Dirk
de Bruyn
(Dirk
Cornelis de Bruyn)
b.
October 14, 1950, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental,
documentary and animation films and videos over the last 30 years.
He has received funding to produce a number of films, but has
continued to maintain a no-budget, independent, self-funded focus
for much of his work.
He
was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta),
been involved with Fringe Network and been a member of the Melbourne
Super 8 Film Group. He has written about and curated various programs
of film and video art internationally and written extensively
about this area of arts practice. During the late '90s he was
involved in an independent weekly screening program of film and
video art at the Café Bohemio.
In
the early '90s de Bruyn lived in Canada. Understanding Science,
Rote Movie and Doubt were largely produced while
teaching Animation at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in
Vancouver.
He is currently
teaching Animation and Digital Culture at Deakin University in
Melbourne, Victoria. (Burwood Campus).
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CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
There have been various strands to
my investigations into the moving image.
My early
work Running (1976, 30 mins), Zoomfilm(1976,
28 mins) and Feyers(1979, 27 mins) began a concern
with the ideas of closed-eye vision, trance and catatonia and
were confronting / assaulting to the viewer. These films were
about structure as content. They were concerned with the nature
and impact of film itself: with image flicker, the after image,
the physiology of viewing. This enquiry led to shorter compacted
works like Vision (1985, 4 mins) and 223 (1985,
6 mins). With these films the complexity of the layered image,
the "hand drawn/direct on film/image texture" nature of production
and the notion of no budget film making became more of a focus.
There has
been a further re-ordering with work like Traum a Dream
(2002, 7 mins) and Rote Movie (1994, 12 mins) to include
a suggestion of story, the personal, a sampling of the "self".
The story that is being told is one of trauma and forgetting,
of stress and the stressed/shocked body. The nature of film is
used as a metaphor, a trace of these influences on the body.
The strand
of the personalised and diaristic present in the longer works
like Experiments(1981, 2 screen, 55 mins), Homecomings
(1987, 100 mins) and Conversations with my Mother (1990,
100 mins), finds its way back into these shorter pieces.
The sampling
of time and the movement of light and shade has been another area
of study. This is evident in time-lapse films like Boerdery
(1985, 11 mins) and A X Canada (1995, 80 mins) and much
of my unpublished Super 8 work.
Dirk de
Bruyn, April 2003
See alsoFilms - Dirk's films
in detail, including quotes from reviews.
Experiments (1981, 4 mins excerpt)
Film Strip #01/09
FILMOGRAPHY:
Me
and Chris
The House
That I Live In
(1974, 12 mins, 16mm, Silent)
Me and
Chris (1975, 10 mins, 16mm, Silent)
Running
(1976, 30 mins, 16mm, Optical Sound)
Zoomfilm
(1976, 28 mins, 16mm, Optical Sound)
Kipling
Street Garage (1978, 50 mins, 16mm, Silent)
2nd Hand
Cinema (2005, 7 mins, 16mm, Optical Sound)
See also Films - Dirk's films in detail, including quotes from
reviews.
Multimedia Performance and Installation:
1983-
de Bruyn, D. "Experiments". 2 Screen projection and
Performance Pictura Art Gallery. Dordrecht. Netherlands.
1986-
de Bruyn, D.Gombrowicz Talks. Performance Series. includes
slide/film/video/mirror. Glasshouse Cinema
1989-
de Bruyn, D. Multiscreen and Slide performance. Theatreworks
1995-
de Bruyn, D. Gutteral Performance. Multimedia Performance. Musician's
Club. Wellington St. Fitzroy. October
Migraine
Particles
1995-
de Bruyn, D. and Dangerfield, D. "the Sky was Blue"
Sound and Multimedia Presentation. Erwin Rado Theatrette. Fitzroy.
October.
1995-
de Bruyn, D. Gutteral Performance. Multimedia Performance. Café
Bohemio Smith St Collingwood. August
1996-
de Bruyn, D. Gutteral Performance 2. Multimedia Performance. Café
Bohemio Smith St Collingwood. June
1996-
de Bruyn, D. and de Jong, S. jeltje, Vleeskens, C. Kamer 2: Australian-Dutch
connection. Mixed Media Performance, Screenings and installations.
Fitzroy Galleries. August.
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Experiments". 2 Screen projection and
Performance UWA. Perth.
1997-
de Bruyn, D and de Jong, S. jeltje, Sullivan, P. Herrmann, K et
al. "Pinkster" Installation and Exhibition On Ritual.
25-30 October Fitzroy Galleries
1998-
de Bruyn, D. and U.Q., Drysdale , J. "I'm A Cutting"
Multimedia Performance and Dance. Theatreworks St Kilda 14-15
Nov
1998-
de Bruyn, D. and Ball, S. Skeltys, N. "Un-Australian"
Interactive Multimedia Performance. Erwin Rado Theatrette 29 May
1999-
de Bruyn, D. Regurgitations. Interactive and Performance Digita
Binary bar Fitzroy 5 October
2000-
de Bruyn, D. and Burt, W. Winter Solstice Mix. Multimedia Performance.
Brisbane Powerhouse 21-22 September
Traum
a Dream
2000-
de Bruyn, D. and Burt, W. Winter Solstice Mix. Multimedia Performance.
Sale Art Gallery 12-13 September.
2000-
de Bruyn, D. and Burt, W. Visual and Aural Abeyances. Multimedia
Performance. Sun Theatre Footscray August.
2000-
de Bruyn, D. with Taylor, N. Bergner, M. Smith, L. Eaton, J. Rodgers,
P. "Direct Action: Infiniti ragioni" Multimedia Installation/sculpture
April 12-16. PB Gallery Prahran.
2002-
de Bruyn, D. with Fraser, V. and Austen, L. "Unsettled"
installations. Kraznapolsky Gallery Grey St. St. Kilda. 24 May-2
June 2002.
2003-
de Bruyn, D. "Diary V 3.2". Interactive CD-Rom Videobrasil Sao
Paulo Brazil September 22-29.
2005-
de Bruyn, D. "Cinema Without Costs", 20-24 June 2005, Filmwerkplaats,
Rotterdam.
2006-
de Bruyn, D. "Memorium" at The 2nd OtherFilm Festival March Brisbane
Conferences:
1993-
de Bruyn, D. "Reclaiming Ourselves", 6th
Australian History and Film Conference. Proceedings: Screening
the Past pp10-16. Media Centre Latrobe U. Bundoora 3083.
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Homing in on the Hypertextual Documentary",
5th International Documentary Conference, Brisbane.
Published in Metro Number 112 1997 pp 63-69
2003-
de Bruyn, D. "Migrating to the New." ACM SIGGRAPH
Taipei 2003. Taiwan. Presentation and translated article.
December
2004-
de Bruyn, D. "Dreaming Dreaming", Double Dialogues
#6: Anatomy and Poetics (Art & Pain II Conference,
pp. 1-6, Double Dialogues, Australia)
2004-
de Bruyn, D. "Reconstituting the invisible out of structure
and repetition: a walk through Diary V3.2.", Image, Text
& Sound Conference2004 , pp. 1-4, School of Creative
Media, RMIT University
2005-
de Bruyn, D. "Old Tom, New Tom", [online]
in Lyndal Jones, Pauline Anastasiou, Rhonda Smithies and Karen
Trist (eds), Vital Signs: Creative Practice & New Media Now,
RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, p. [14].
1999-
de Bruyn, D. "Totales Kino", Marc Adrian: Das Filmische
Werk pp 151-170 Sanderzahl Vienna ISBN 3 85 449 140 9
articles
1986-
de Bruyn, D. "Manifestoes" Filmnews Vol
18 No 3 1986
1986-
de Bruyn, D. "Report on Ann Arbor and Montreal S8 Festivals"
Filmviews Vol 31 No 128 1986
1987-
de Bruyn, D. "Educational Video in the Streets of New York",
Metro 73 pp 42-3
1987-
de Bruyn, D. "Open Screenings" Filmnews
p14 March 1987
1987-
de Bruyn, D. "Film Text: Film Texture" Catalogue
MIMA Yearbooks
1987-
de Bruyn, D. "Finding Audiences" Super 8 Yearbook.
1991-
de Bruyn, D. "Reclaiming Another Desert: Distribution of
Film Art in Australia", Independent Eye Vol 12 No
2 1992 CFMDC Toronto
1992-
de Bruyn, D. "Text-Texture-Gesture" Continuum: The
Australian Journal of Media & Culture Vol. 8 No. 1 (1992)
"Electronic Arts in Australia" ed. N.Zurbrugg.
1992-
de Bruyn, D. "Cinema as Skinner's Box: The Work of Jean-Claude
Bustros", Workprint. 1992/3 Cineworks Vancouver Canada
1992-
de Bruyn, D. "The Colonised Eye: Re-thinking the Grierson
Legend", Workprint. 1992/3 Cineworks Vancouver Canada
1993-
de Bruyn, D. "India Indies: An Interview with Deepa Dhanraj"
Workprint. 1993 Cineworks Vancouver Canada
1993-
de Bruyn, D. "SAID: An Interview with Mike Hoolboom"
Workprint. 1993 Cineworks Vancouver Canada
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Stroking Unearthed Memory: Jo Law" Cantrills
Filmnotes Dec 1996
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Meet John Doe", The National Cinematheque's
Annotations on Film: Metro
109 Australian Teachers of Media, Australia
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Mike Hoolboom Shorts", CTEQ 3/96 The
National Cinematheque's Annotations on Film
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Invocation of Gesture" Melbourne Super
8 Film Group Newsletter No 120 December 1996
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Surfaces" Melbourne Super 8 Film Group
Newsletter No 119 November 1996
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Visual Documentation" Melbourne Super
8 Film Group Newsletter No 118 October 1996
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Bill's Home Page: Reinventing in No Sense"
Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletter No 114 June
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "In Praise of the Everyday" Melbourne
Super 8 Film Group Newsletter No 112 April 1996
1996-
de Bruyn, D. "Mountainous Indifference" Melbourne
Super 8 Film Group Newsletter No 110 February 1996
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "L'Invitation au Voyage" A Critical
Guide to the National Cinematheque 2/97: Metro M110 Australian
Teachers of Media, Australia
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Adynata" A Critical Guide to the National
Cinematheque 4/97: Metro M112 Australian Teachers of Media,
Australia
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Institute Benjamenta, or this dream people
call human life" A Critical Guide to the National Cinematheque
3/97: Metro M111 Australian Teachers of Media, Australia
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Capturing Minutae: Laszlo Dudas' Beyond
The Call of Duty" RealTime p27 Feb-March 1997
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Inserting An Extra String in the Machine Code"
Cantrills Filmnotes July 1997
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Alt.Film.Au" The Big Picture Issue
11 Summer 1997 UWA
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Are We Having Fun Yet: Interview with Martin
Rumsby" The Big Picture p10-11 1997 New Zealand
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Writing on the Wall: Cantrills Filmnotes"
Metro 111 Australian Teachers of Media, Australia
1997-
de Bruyn, D. Ed. 101 Nights: 101 Screenings @ Café Bohemio.
Self Published.
1997-
de Bruyn, D. "Persistence of Vision: Nick Ostrovskis"
Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletter November 1997
1998-
de Bruyn, D. "Whose Game" Mesh May 1998 EMA.
Melbourne.
1998-
de Bruyn, D. "Paul Winkler: A Bridge Seldom Crossed"
Metro 113/114 Australian Teachers of Media, Australia
1998-
de Bruyn, D. "Broken Will" Melbourne Super 8 Film
Group Newsletter June 1998
1998-
de Bruyn, D. "Image Smithing: Lost and Found" Melbourne
Super 8 Film Group Newsletter May 1998
1999-
de Bruyn, D. "Traumatising States" ArtLink Vol
19 No 3 Disintegration (1999)
