
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).
Thought/Action 2026
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Retracing Karkarook 2025
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Traceless Traces 2025
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Flinders 2024
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To Hear to See 2023
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Schists 2023 2023
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White Bat 2021
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Death of Place (annotated) 2020
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Chanting 2019
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Pattern Recognition 2019
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Chant En Couleur 2018
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Re-Vue 2018
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Recover 2017
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Dissociation 2016
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Living in the Past 2016
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East Meets West 2015
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The Death of Place 2014
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Empire 2014
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Found Found Found 2014
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Telescope 2012
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Wap 2012
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Click If You Like This 2012
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RemmbrMe 2007
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2nd Hand Cinema 2005
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H2 2004
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Analog Stress 2004
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Traum A Dream 2002
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Schist 1998
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A X Canada 1995
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Rote Movie 1994
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Understanding Science 1992
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Conversations with my Mother 1990
as Himself, Director
Knots 1990
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Homecomings 1987
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Frames 1986
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223 1985
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Boerdery 1985
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Vision 1985
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Migraine Particles 1984
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Light Play 1984
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Discs 1984
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Experiments 1982
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Walk 1980
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Feyers 1979
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Running 1976
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Zoomfilm 1976
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The House That Eye Live In 2014
as Himself
My Blessings 1997
as Projectionist, Sound Mixer
Between Us 1989
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Credits from TMDB.