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CIRCUIT CAST: Symposium preview #2 - Dirk De Bruyn

04 Aug 2015
The latest podcast features Dirk de Bruyn, an Australian experimental film-maker and guest presenter at the upcoming CIRCUIT symposium.

“Someone puts (up) a British flag and says "there’s nothing here”. Our latest podcast features Dirk de Bruyn, an Australian experimental film-maker and guest presenter at the upcoming CIRCUIT symposium A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice.

“Someone puts (up) a British flag and says "there’s nothing here”. Our latest podcast features Dirk de Bruyn, an Australian experimental film-maker and guest presenter at the upcoming CIRCUIT symposium A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice.

Here Dirk talks to Mark Amery about his recent film Threshold, which uses Google Maps and aerial photography to examine how technology constructs memory. He also discusses the embrace of the European and American experimental film canon at the expense of the local lineage in Australia and New Zealand.

This years symposium takes place on Saturday 15 August at Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland. Registration is $50. Register for the CIRCUIT symposium.

CIRCUIT CAST Episode 29 was engineered by Callum Devlin.

  • Courtesy of CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand