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HomecomingsResearch statement
Cineinfinito #134: Homecomings 04 Mar 2019
Research statement
Cineinfinito #134 Dirk de Bruyn (IV) Homecomings is part of a 4-program (#83, #84, #132, #133) retrospective of de Bruyn’s innovative experimental work that covers research into the moving image from 1976 to 1990 placed in a prominent Spanish international review of image research. This eminent recognition places this work clearly into an extensive contemporary who’s who survey of innovative practice and reflects its sustained research excellence at an international level. As an Australian contribution it uncovers part of the hidden histories of Australian Experimental Film? Homecomings in particular, as a feature-length diaristic document addresses the following research questions that have been explored over decades of research in international forums: How can Non-representational Cinema communicate story? What trace does the forgotten or denied leave in memory and what is its visual form? How is trance created with images and incorporated into autobiography? How is Visual Thinking revealed in moving image form? At its time of initial publication Homecomings contributes to new approaches to Arnheim’s concept of Visual Thinking and Vilem Flusser’s evolving concept of the technical image.
The detailed program notes that accompany this diaristic documentary stress that ‘de Bruyn interrogates the broad social, cultural and historical factors which have shaped his sense of self, and as always, attempts to amplify the traumatic silences, contradictions and exclusions of repressive regimes from the trans-national to the personal.’ and ‘this film is stylistically heterogenous, incorporating elements of auto-ethnography, film diary and diverse animation techniques with an open structure which resists narrative completion.’Publication classification
JC2 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/EventScale
NTRO MinorExtent
All films origination on 16mm film.Event
Dirk de Bruyn Retrospective (Works IV)Publisher
CineinfinitoPlace of publication
Madrazo, SpainSeries
Cineinfinito series
