Inside the Machine: The Films of Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie

Free entrance

Door & Bar open 19:15–22:00

In collaboration with Polar Film Lab, we present a screening focusing on the experimental, materialist works of RIchard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie.

Using the mechanics of analogue filmmaking and projection, and highly creative photochemical wizardry, their works explore and express mechanisation as it appears elsewhere in our lives – where we too, as physical and social bodies, are mechanised.

As a young person 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 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.

Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne, Aus.) began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties.After a brief hiatus from cinema (including formal study in philosophy for seven years) he returned to moving image work in 2004. His films and perfomrances have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York FF, Ann Arbor and Media City. He is the proprietor of the artist-run film lab nanolab. Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia and internationally.

This screening is part of an expanded programme focusing on analogue moving-image, as part of our exhibition We Circle in Darkness, Consumed by Light.

The event will be in english.

The project is generously supported by: Kulturrådet - Arts Council Norway, Sparebank1 Nord-Norge and Tromsø kommune.