Three films by Dirk de Bruyn

Details: AFW presents a screening of three films by Australian Experimental filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn. Films: Running (1976) 35 Minutes A structured exercise using colour and image jumps from positive to negative, repeating a basic scene of two people walking down a lane. ZoomFilm (1976) 34 Minutes An experimental film dedicated to the Blink. A series of rapid images are created by various techniques such as the zoom. Feyers- a Dance Behind Your Eyes (1978) 32 minutes A fire and an eye come together to be meditated upon. "I have previous referred to these films as a trance trilogy in a pamphlet for the Australian Film Institute, because they require a more meditative or catatonic approach to viewing, like staring out a window on a long train trip. The images have to wash over you otherwise you get very tired by the end of the journey. Of all of my films these lose the most by being viewed as video or digitally because at some point the images can float unmoored from the screen. Hence my choice to screen here at the Artist Film Workshop. Running in particular plays with afterimages in a way that is muted in digital form. Also these films all include home processed material, solarisation, reticulation, colour processing using the wrong chemicals etc. This was also a time of longer attention spans which gave the film a chance at public appreciation."