Dirk de Bruyn

Biography

Dirk de Bruyn is Associate Professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia where he teaches Animation and Documentary Animation modules. He has made numerous animations, performance and installation work over the last 40 years. His book "The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art" was published in 2014. His recent animations such as "Re-Vue" (2017), "Chanting" (2018), "Recover" (2017) and "Living in the Past" (2018) have been screened internationally. Retrospective programs of his animations have been presented at Melbourne International Animation Festival (2016), Alternativa, Serbia, Punto Y Raya, Karlsruhe Germany (2016) and Cineinfinito in Spain (2019, 2020).

Directed

1. Experiments (1982) — Director
2. Rote Movie (1994) — Director
3. Running (1976) — Director
4. Found Found Found (2014) — Director
5. Zoomfilm (1976) — Director
6. Walk (1980) — Director
7. Knots (1990) — Director
8. Vision (1985) — Director
9. Click If You Like This (2012) — Director
10. Death of Place (annotated) (2020) — Director
11. H2 (2004) — Director
12. Analog Stress (2004) — Director
13. Schist (1998) — Director
14. Discs (1984) — Director
15. East Meets West (2015) — Director
16. Wap (2012) — Director
17. Empire (2014) — Director
18. Living in the Past (2016) — Director
19. The Death of Place (2014) — Director
20. White Bat (2021) — Director
21. Conversations with my Mother (1990) — Director
22. Feyers (1979) — Director
23. Boerdery (1985) — Director
24. Schists 2023 (2023) — Director
25. Recover (2017) — Director
26. Migraine Particles (1984) — Director
27. Chant En Couleur (2018) — Director
28. Pattern Recognition (2019) — Director
29. Chanting (2019) — Director
30. Traum A Dream (2002) — Director
31. Dissociation (2016) — Director
32. Re-Vue (2018) — Director
33. 223 (1985) — Director
34. RemmbrMe (2007) — Director
35. Understanding Science (1992) — Director
36. Light Play (1984) — Director
37. Frames (1986) — Director
38. Homecomings (1987) — Director
39. 2nd Hand Cinema (2005) — Director
40. To Hear to See (2023) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The House That Eye Live In (2014) — Himself
2. Conversations with my Mother (1990) — Himself
3. My Blessings (1997) — Projectionist