Homecomings

De Bruyn combines his particular filmic effectinterest rhythm with the tangible reality around him In Homecomings there is an incredible sense of the filmmaker living and breathing his practice In what is essentially a diary film of a man going back to his homeland strange things start to happen photos are animated too quick to catch actions are sped up through timelapse and most profoundly of all certain shots get transformed into their drawnonfilm equivalents When we see from behind Dirks son Kees sitting at a table drawing and then the same sceneaction but obviously handdrawn onto the film it speaks volumes about the filmmaker and his interaction with the world and is also a sublimely new configuration in cinemas history of sight and sound of signification if you like Homecomings is a long autobiographicaldiary film that combines the filmmakers life with the filmmakers practice Bill Mousoulis