Documentary examining the relationship between the filmmaker and his mother who both emigrated to Australia from the Netherlands in the 1950s. The film gives a personal insight into both the experience of being a migrant in Australia in the 1950s and the complexities of the relationship between mother and son.
An impressionistic walk through the father/son, parent/child relationship.
HOMECOMINGS incorporates many of Dirk de Bruyn's experimental filmmaking techniques into this film-diary of his family's extended stay in the Netherlands, 25 years after he had migrated to Australia as an eight-year-old. The film explores his reactions to a culture that is both familiar and yet unfamiliar to him, and contrasts this with his own feelings about being a migrant to Australia.
A young girl is happy and content in her own little world - then a strange man keeps bothering her. At first she tries to ignore him, but things get really weird. This hand-drawn animation is an experimental response to a 'mash-up' version of the song 'Lonely Girl'.
The new film by Dirk de Bruyn, which manipulates found footage to explore the term ‘New Australian', an expression coined after World War II to describe migrants to Australia.
A traveller contemplates on his loneliness and the fragmentation of his life and 'self'.
An abstract film with a single frame pixilation and scratch operations directly onto the film surface.
The reworking of memory and the dislocation from place expressed through the collage of image and sound. Images from a past personal life are reworked and layered over other everyday images.
Documents the performance of sound + performance group U. Q. from the perspective of one of the participants. The piece evolved out of an exhibition held by members of the group to express aspects of the migrant experience.
A development of the direct-on-film series, incorporating the drawings of the filmmaker's children, hinting at the dynamics of family life and floating around the beginning of meaning. Can we ever truly understand science?