
Film Festival Reports
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: DIRK DE BRUYN AND AUSTRALIAN AUDIENCES
By Tara Judah
In 2013, I saw Dirk de Bruyn’s short film WAP at the Revelation Film Festival in Perth. In terms of its formal experimentation, the film evokes Martin Arnold’s Cinemnesis. Thematically, it takes a critical eye to the White Australia Policy, scrutinising what the policy promised new migrants with one hand while systematically refusing with the other.