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2003
- Saloni M swims East
Abe
and Dirk de Bruyn
Abe de Bruyn is
an independent human being who dabbles infrequently in the mediums of
experimental film/video, journalism and pop music.
In 2001-2002 he found
his feet working with Melbourne community television group SKATV,
where he worked on the weekly activist news program Access News.
Switching to the
printed page, he was elected as editor to La Trobe University student
magazine Rabelais
in 2003 and was recently re-elected for 2004.
With what spare time
he salvages between study, work and the magazine, Abe creates quirky cute
melodies with fellow rock stars in waiting The Clap.
Presently he hopes
to finish his Bachelor of Media Studies degree sometime within the next
five years.
Dirk
de Bruyn has
made numerous experimental, documentary and animation films and videos
over the last 30 years.
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.
For
the Saloni M swims East
event on Friday, December 5,
they presented:
Cell, a 13-minute film, a documentary
on the Woomera Detention Centre, shot by Abe and edited by Abe and
Dirk. Ali Alizadeh read
his poem Your Monster in conjunction
with the last few minutes of the film.
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Cell
a
film by
Abe and Dirk de Bruyn
Wandering around (slightly disoriented by the glaring sun) miles
from nowhere amidst hundreds of other conscientious objectors.
The
fences that separated us from the detainees seemed like lines in
the sand. Who are the real barbarians?
The
film, CELL, was put together from the video scraps left over from
my trip to Woomera in Easter 2002. When working on the film Woomera
Easter Breakout 2002 for SKATV it occurred to us that the entire
movie relied on the energy that peaked with the pulling down of
the fence (we call this climax activist porn).
Since
then I have wanted to make a film about this event without that
climactic moment: a film with the surreal tension that was in the
air of that vast unending desert.
Abe
de Bruyn
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© Abe
and Dirk de Bruyn 2003.
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