Filmform and independent film curator Martin Grennberger are pleased to present a 16mm screening with Australian duo Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie. They are internationally known for their handcrafted films which are distinguished by inventive in-camera techniques, unconventional approaches to the projector, and experimental explorations of filmstrips, print stocks and darkroom processes. They are also founders of the artist-run film lab nanolab, which specializes in small gauge film processing. Tuohy and Barrie’s work encompasses both expanded cinema and single screen presentations, and the screening at Filmform will present a selection of single screen works from 2019-2025. Sonically elaborate, often with an emphasis on structure and process, these are films that viscerally enhance, complexify and revitalize the dynamic relations between form and content.
PLEASE NOTE:
Doors open at 6.30, the screening starts at 7PM. The ticket price is 60 SEK. RSVP to info@filmform.com in order to book a ticket. First come, first served. Limited amount of seats.
PROGRAMME:
In and Out a Window, 2021, 12 min
Mesmo Rio – Same River, 2019, 7 min
Self-portrait with Bag, 2020, 6 mins
Tooborac, 2025, 9 min
Nude, Descending, 2025, 9 mins
Fear of Floating, 2024, 7 mins
The Land at Night, 2024, 14 mins
Total running time: 64 min
All films above by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie. The programme will be introduced by Martin Grennberger in conversation with Richard and Dianna.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne) began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties. His films have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York FF, Ann Arbor and Media City and he has toured Europe, the Americas and Asia presenting solo programs of his work. His works are firmly in the ‘hand-made’ film tradition. An advocate for the possibilities of hand made cinema, Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia and internationally.
Dianna Barrie (b. 1972, Melbourne) 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 with Richard Tuohy, and into the intersection of hand making and industrial cinema technology. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to the establishment of Artist Film Workshop, where celluloid is embraced and advocated by a community of practitioners in Melbourne.
ABOUT THE FILMS:
In and Out a Window, 2021, 12 min
Our front window, from inside and out. Made during a long covid lockdown. A product of the distraction and abstraction that resulted from a lot of staring at the same pieces of glass.
Mesmo Rio – Same River, 2019, 7 min
Rocks become sand become rocks become sand. All life is life on the beach. You can never step into the same river, or walk the same city, twice.
Self-portrait with Bag, 2020, 6 min
A camera-less portrait of the artist. Super 8 cartridges placed inside a black cotton bag, the film advanced via a hand crank. The tiny gaps in the fabric weave make for dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of tiny pinholes.
Tooborac, 2025, 9 min
Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in ecstatic celebration of their own endurance.
Nude, Descending, 2025, 9 min
A performer descends the stairs. Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the motion. Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity. A game played with colour separations, motion following hand scratched and painted mattes and a perpetual descending figure.
Fear of Floating, 2024, 7 min
Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty and hope. A ferry crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and times of human expansion and human vulnerability.
The Land at Night, 2024, 14 min
I used to find the dusk a very unsettling time, as though the approaching night was something to be feared. It was as if, once night fell you could not flee, and had to face unspecified consequences. Maybe the land
remembers and the night will reveal what we might have done…