Dirk de Bruyn Movies

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

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

"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.

"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...

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

film by Dirk de Bruyn & Glenn D’Cruz

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