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Richard Tuohy is a maker of short films who also studied philosophy, music and botany. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was an active member of the Melbourne Super-8 Film Group. These days he also works with 16mm celluloid. Tuohy is fascinated with abstractions from nature and the materialist film tradition. He encourages other artists to work with film through his Artist Film Workshop initiative. He is also co-founder of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival.
Dianna Barrie found her way into filmmaking as a middle ground between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy. Ever pushing the limits of the hand processing of super 8 led to the establishment of nanolab, a commercial super8 lab, with Richard Tuohy in 2006. Dianna's film work could be characterized as "direct chemical" filmmaking involving interventions during hand processing and exacting editing and/or printing processes; they are then completed with simple layered sound constructions. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to her joint establishment in 2012 of Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne.
China Not China
2018 14min Barrie/Tuohy
Hong Kong marked 20 years since its hand over to China; half way through the planned 40-year « one country, two systems » transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC (Republic of China) on the edge of the PRC (People's Republic of China). Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China.
The Last Train
2016 12min Barrie
Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba, footage from a trailer for the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film "Kereta Api Terakhir" (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and
inaccessible archives.
Flyscreen
2010 8min Tuohy
Flyscreen is a camera-less ‘rayogram’ film, made by layering fly-screen material onto raw 16mm film stock and then exposing to light. The sound heard is the optical sound of the images passing the 16mm optical sound head.
In and Out of the Window
2021 13min Barrie/Tuohy
Our front window, from inside and out. Filmed during covid lockdown. From NYFF: "The literal frame of a window overlooking a small garden becomes the scene through which Richard Tuohy’s film exploits the myriad plastic potentialities of the cinematic frame. Immersive and stroboscopic, In and Out a Window offers its own variations on cinema’s mechanical segmentations of space and time, opening up a portal to undiscovered dimensions and new phenomenologies."
Seoul Electric
2012 7min TuohyA North Asian metropolis. Electricity wires draped like thick webs adorn the streetscape. Expolsive sparks of colour electrify the frame.
Filmed in Seoul in black and white. Colourised during processing using coloured torch light.
