The House that Eye Live In

The House that Eye Live In

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.

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