Deep Dive: The Restlessly Inventive Work of Dirk de Bruyn

Dirk de Bruyn (1950–) has been one of the most adventurous, consistent, underrated and productive filmmakers working in Australia over the last 50 years. He has also been a significant figure in Melbourne screen culture working as a curator, writer, administrator and teacher. His often-experimental work blurs the boundaries between fiction, documentary, animation, found footage, materialist, structuralist, personal, performative, political and culturally sensitive filmmaking.

This program cherrypicks four films from De Bruyn’s agitated and large body of work across Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and various formats of digital video. Although the Cinémathèque has screened a number of De Bruyn’s films over the last 40 years, we are proud to present this first retrospective program.

Program to be introduced by the filmmaker.


WEDNESDAY 9 JULY

7:00pm HOMECOMINGS
Dirk de Bruyn (1987) 98 mins – Unclassified 15+
Preceded by RE-VUE Dirk de Bruyn (2017) 6 mins – Unclassified 15+

9:10pm TELESCOPE
Dirk de Bruyn (2012) 78 mins – Unclassified 15+
Preceded by FLINDERS Dirk de Bruyn (2024) 13 mins – Unclassified 15+


Memberships: acmi.net.au/cteq

Full program notes: melbournecinematheque.org/category/present-year/deep-dive-the-restlessly-inventive-work-of-dirk-de-bruyn


State Government support by VicScreen.

Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.

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