Dirk de Bruyn Dirk de Bruyn i(9022432 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Sewn Into the Margins : An Interview with Marie Craven Dirk de Bruyn (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , May no. 109 2024;

'The following interview with Marie Craven originated from an online interview after a film class viewing of a program of her films as we moved out of Covid. The Zoom transcriptions of that event were trawled and expanded upon by myself and Marie into a more succinct mapping of a journey through her creative work. What motivated me has been her processes of re-invention through the different cycles of media she has been enmeshed in and the creative communities she so productively engaged in, all shifts that reflect changes in the media landscape. Craven has re-invented herself into the present through these media shifts over the last 40 years through Super-8, 16mm, 35mm, music and the digital web.'  (Introduction)

1 Crossing Borders into Abstraction : An Interview with Paul Winkler Dirk de Bruyn (interviewer), 2024 single work interview
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , January no. 108 2024;

'In 2022 the National Film and Sound Archive acquired the hand-made filmmaking material Paul Winkler constructed to make his innovative films from the the 1960’s to the present. Winkler is packing up his practice bags. His successful graphic cinema originated on his 1959 arrival in Australia. A basic 8mm film documenting his journey from Germany to Australia by motorbike was an early foray into cinema. Winkler later participated in Sydney’s Yellow House Art events with Albie Thoms and David Perry. The minimalist 16mm work Brickwall (1975), rendering the act of bricklaying, is considered a classic Australian experimental film.' (Introduction)           

1 Fear of the Dark Dirk de Bruyn , 2021 single work review essay
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July no. 99 2021;
1 The Dissolution of Self Dirk de Bruyn , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July no. 99 2021;

'Saidin Salkic is a Bosnian-Australian filmmaker whose recent prolific output includes Waiting for Sevdah (2017, 40 mins), Silence’s Crescendo (2018, 41 mins), The Shocking (2019, 27 mins) and The Human (2020, 48 mins). This discussion focuses on Silence’s Crescendo, a relentless and minimalist experimental horror chant, and links it to related national and international experimentation, trauma and surveillance capitalism.' (Introduction)

1 The Tragi-Comedy Down Under Appropriates Cronulla Rather Than Offering Insight Dirk de Bruyn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 July 2016;

— Review of Down Under Abe Forsythe , 2015 single work film/TV
'Abe Forsythe’s black comedy Down Under is set the day after the 2005 Christmas Cronulla Riots and undertakes a re-processing of these events. It starts with newsreel footage that brings back this raw, racist national wound of running mob fights, the derisive calls, the cars, the drinking, the police batons, the flags and the arrests. ...'
1 Joe Cinque’s Consolation : Violence, Delusion and the Question of Guilt Dirk de Bruyn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 October 2016;

— Review of Joe Cinque's Consolation : A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law Sotiris Dounoukos , Matt Rubinstein , 2016 single work film/TV
'If you want your cinema neatly wrapped with a bow on top by the time you walk out of the theatre, then Sotiris Dounoukos’s Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016) is not for you. The events that this film portrays will keep working on you, testing your thinking on truth and fantasy, probing where you sit ethically in relation to mental illness, manslaughter, and its complicit witnessing. ...'
1 y separately published work icon OBlad Cornelis Vleeskens , Dirk de Bruyn , Cape Paterson : Earthdance , 1999 9022448 1999 selected work poetry
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