Date: 14 January 2004 | Season: LUX Salon
LUX SALON: DIRK DE BRUYN: ANCIENT DAMAGE
Wednesday 14 January 2004, at 7:30pm
London LUX
Born in the Netherlands, Dirk de Bruyn has been active as an artist, writer and organiser for over 30 years, primarily in Australia where he has been a central figure in the Melbourne film scene. De Bruyn uses a variety of techniques including direct animation, flicker, time lapse and hand-processing to create dynamic personal cinema. This programme features a film from each decade and includes the world premiere of Analog Stress.
Dirk de Bruyn, Running, 1976, colour, sound, 30 min
Dirk de Bruyn, Boerdery, 1985, colour, sound, 11 min
Dirk de Bruyn, Rote Movie, 1994, colour, sound, 12 min
Dirk de Bruyn, Analog Stress, 2004, colour, sound, 12 min
PROGRAMME NOTES
LUX SALON: DIRK DE BRUYN: ANCIENT DAMAGE
Wednesday 14 January 2004, at 7:30pm
London LUX
RUNNING
Dirk de Bruyn, 1976, 16mm, colour, sound, 30 min
The reworking repetition and reprocessing of a strip of film of two people walking down a lane. The flashing positive and negative images force the viewer to stare rather than looking at the film. Made at a time when the filmmaker had access to a professional processing machine and chemicals.
BOERDERY
Dirk de Bruyn, 1985, 16mm, colour, sound, 11 min
A time-lapse document of a farmhouse in the Netherlands mapping the changing seasons, the light and shadows. Made with an interval-meter fashioned out of a wind screen wiper motor. Music by Chris Knowles
ROTE MOVIE
Dirk de Bruyn, 1994, 16mm, colour, sound, 12 min
“On the voice over de Bruyn places himself behind the wheel of a car, an appropriate metaphor for his expatriate driven reflections on his feelings of exile, distance and loneliness. Necessarily unintelligent memories highlight habitual subjectivity of “walking through a landscape alone”, “gypsy”, “victim”. Images of road signs, cars, billboards, the passing landscape; elegantly simple rotoscope (by rote?) drawings, recopied and texturally manipulated filmic images; the inevitability of the repetition of leader. A tired, yearning, moving film.” —Steven Ball, Mesh 3, Autumn 1994
ANALOG STRESS
Dirk de Bruyn, 2004, 16mm, colour, sound, 12 min
Made from reworked and reanimated found industrial and discarded personal footage. The main focus is the soundtrack which has been reconstructed from scratches, pen marks, Letraset strips and the music and phrases of found films.
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