A programme of 16mm films by Australian experimental filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie (nanolab, AUS) that take us from windswept coasts to pulsating megacities. The work revels in the energy of place as expressed through rhythmic movements of light and shadow and the wash of time as dissected into frames in the camera and reconstituted into flickering flow by the projector.
Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie are amongst the most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in Australia. Their films have frequently featured at many notable experimental film festivals. Together they run nanolab, a small scale motion picture film laboratory for black and white and colour negative. They also actively encourage other artists to work with cine film through their Artist Film Workshop initiative in Melbourne. Over the last decade, the pair have spent a good percentage of their time traveling to other artist-run film labs around the world, teaching workshops, screening their films and repairing equipment.
Bodies in Space
Mesmo Rio – Same River
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 7 mins, 16mm Pulfrich, 2019
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
Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy, 6 mins, 16mm, 2020
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.
In and Out a Window
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 12 mins, 16mm, 2021
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.
Intersection
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 10 mins, 16mm, 2022
A staccato study of street level action and inter-action. People and vehicles on everyday journeys are atomised into coursing fragments of light, shadow, angle and inertia, reiterating and disassembling the creation of motion out of still frames at the heart of cinema. Filmed in ten cities on four continents.
Like a Lighthouse
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 12 mins, 16mm, 2023
A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything – the land, plants, the sky – shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us with their demands to be noticed. This film is kind of a home movie of a 5 day hike to the southern most tip of Australia.
Fear of Floating
Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy, 7 mins, 16mm, 2024
Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty, hope and inevitability. A ferry crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and times of human expansion and human vulnerability.
The Land at Night
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 14 mins, 16mm, 2024
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…
DATE:
Monday, Aug 12th 2024
TIME:
doors open at 7:30 pm
show starts at 8 pm
VENUE:
PA58 event space
Prinzenallee 58
13359 Berlin (2nd backyard on the right)
FEE:
suggested donation: 5 Euros or more
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie: Bodies in Space
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