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> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:42:35 +0000
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> Subject: [secretcinema] LUX SALON: Dirk de Bruyn: Wednesday 14 January 2003
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> DIRK DE BRUYN: ANCIENT DAMAGE
> Lux Salon, Wednesday 14 January 2004, 7pm for 7.30pm start
> 
> Dirk de Bruyn will present a programme of 16mm from 1976 to 2004, including
> both his first and latest films. Born in the Netherlands, he 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 (2004, 12m). The visual element is constructed from reworked
> industrial and discarded personal footage, while the sound combines the
> original optical tracks with scratches, pen marks and Letraset. Also
> screening: RUNNING (1976, 30m), BOERDERY (1985, 11m) and ROTE MOVIE (1994,
> 12m).
> 
> Admission to the LUX SALON is FREE but places are limited so booking is
> essential. To book a place email <[log in to unmask]>. If you reserve a space
> but cannot attend, please let us know as it deprives others of a place.
> 
> LUX SALON takes place at LUX, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ.
> see directions at http://www.lux.org.uk/directions.html
> 
> ...
> 
> DIRK DE BRUYN
> 
> Dirk de Bruyn has made numerous experimental, documentary and animation
> films and videos over the last 30 years. He has received funding to produce
> a number of films, but has continued to maintain a no-budget, independent,
> self-funded focus for much of his work.
> 
> He was a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta), been
> involved with Fringe Network and was a member of the Melbourne Super 8 Film
> Group. He has curated various international programs of film and video art
> and written extensively about this area of arts practice. In the early Œ90s
> de Bruyn lived in Canada and taught animation at Emily Carr College of Art
> and Design in Vancouver. Later that decade, he was involved in an
> independent weekly screening program of film and video art at the Café
> Bohemio in Melbourne.
> 
> RUNNING (1976, 30 mins)
> 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 (1985, 11 mins)
> 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 (1994, 12 mins)
> "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 (2004, 12 mins)
> 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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