A Report on the Exhibition Threshold (works by Dirk de Bruyn, Guy Grabowsky & Mat Hughes) Glenn D'Cruz January 2023 Festival Reports Dirk de Bruyn’s extensive body of work is marked by an experimental ethos that consistently challenges formal cinematic conventions. Steven McIntyre has drawn attention to de Bruyn’s contribution to “expanded c...
Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990). Glenn D'Cruz November 2017 Screening Melbourne This reflective essay stages a conversation with Dirk de Bruyn’s autobiographical film, Conversations with my Mother’ (1990) in order to foreground the importance of Melbourne’s working class western suburbs in...
