Jan De Bruin (NL) | No fire

SYNOPSIS

One-shot film about a father and daughter sitting outside their own perception of time, reality and each other. The film was recorded in Hamburg 2006. In his short films de Bruin creates a psychological mirror on everyday life. Usually he records people in urban situations, engaged in interaction with each other. Hereby exploring the boundaries between film and art, as well as reality and fiction but since these are clichés; making foremost an effort of showing us ourselves.
This may be a revolt against post-modernism.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Jan de Bruin was born in Delft in 1977; he graduated in 2002 from the film department at the Dutch art-school St. Joost in Breda. After his graduation he devoted himself to making personal short documentary videos. From 2003 through 2005 with the support of the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts he committed himself to the In America project to document the truth behind the (cinematographic) clichés of the USA. Nowadays de Bruin travels mostly around Europe with camera to film the unseen theatre of reality.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Brussels 04-08-07 00:13 am, 2007, 5'00", video
• No Fire, 2006, 7'00", video
• This is Chicago, 2006, 2'00", video,
• Waiting for Felipe, 2005, 7'00",video
• Promise Land, 2005, 33'00", video
• Sexy Islam, 2004, 1'00", video
• Calling 911, 2004, 6'00", video
• Who You are is what You See, 2002, 6'00", video
• Ferrarium, 2002, 20'00", video,
• Lost Angels, 2000, 8'00", video
• Car Religion, 1999, 5'00", video