
Dirk de Bruyn
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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).
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2025Traceless Traces
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2023Schists 2023
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2021White Bat
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2020Death of Place (annotated)
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2019Pattern Recognition
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2019Chanting
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2018Chant En Couleur
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2018Re-Vue
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2017Recover
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2016Living in the Past
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2016Dissociation
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2015East Meets West
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2014Found Found Found
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2014Empire
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2014The Death of Place
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2012Click If You Like This
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2012Wap
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2007RemmbrMe
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20052nd Hand Cinema
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2004Analog Stress
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2004H2
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2002Traum A Dream
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1998Schist
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1994Rote Movie
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