Australian film makers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie will be at the ANYEYE film lab at Montserrat College of Art from June 22 until June 24th. They will be conducting a 3 day workshop that will focus on direct film making using a salvaged 16mm contact printer. Since a lot of 16mm equipment is being discarded as the film industry has shifted towards video production, Small film labs have sprung in different parts of the world to gather and begin using the equipment in new and creative ways. ANYEYE is one of those.
Richard is a film maker who has become sort of an expert on these devices which are used to make one-to one-copies of 16mm films.
Dianna Barrie is an accomplished film maker who works with Richard on a variety of hand processed and experimentally inspired short films. Together they have done workshops in Barcelona, Riga Latvia, Vienna, Rotterdam, Paris, Berlin, Colorado Springs, Toronto and in Boston as well.
Here is text from a recent screening in Toronto;
As the film
industry sheds much of its traditional machinery, Tuohy and other like him are
scavenging these technological leftovers, giving them new life in the growing
artist run film labs movement, and discovering new possibilities and techniques
that had been largely out of reach for an earlier generation of film
experimenters. Tuohy refers to such lab-working filmmakers as coming from the
school of 'dirty hands'; where the filmmaker really gets their hands into the
nitty-gritty of film. Tuohy sees this change as an opportunity, indeed as a
kind of liberation for the experimental filmmaker—allowing experimentation in
areas that previously were too often a costly mystery kept in the hands of
professionals. This program presents six hand-processed and DIY printed 16mm
film works from Tuohy's recent output. The films, though diverse, are all
highly abstract and tightly structured and share a fascination with the visual
possibilities of basic traditional film technology.
Richard Tuohy is one of the
most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in
Australia. His film Iron-Wood won first prize (ex aequo) at
the 2009 International Abstract Cinema Exhibition (ABSTRACTA) in Rome. He
runs Nanolab in
Australia—the specialist small gauge film processing laboratory. He actively
encourages other artists to work with cine film through his Artist Film Workshop
initiative. In 2006 he and his partner started Nanolab as an artist
run film laboratory offering super 8 processing.
And also a link to an interview:
Also; see this interview with Richard;
http://ortodossiafotografica.blogspot.com/2017/02/richard-tuohy-and-diana-berrie-two.html
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