This program brings together seven handcrafted film works by Australian analogue experimentalists Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie. Across five years of creative exploration, these films stand as individual experiments in form and structure, each imbued with its own poetic resonance.

Rooted firmly in the tactile processes of handmade cinema, the works navigate diverse terrains—landscapes, bodies, urban streets, and the cinematic frame. Through a dialogue between materiality and image, these films investigate how the apparatus of cinema itself shapes perception and meaning.

Viewers are invited to experience the constructive collisions between subject and medium, between object and frame, and between successive individual film frames at the heart of the cinema apparatus.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Richard and Dianna with not/nowhere workers

Programme

• Tooborac, dir. Richard Tuohy, 2025, 16mm, 9 mins
• Nude, Descending, dir. Dianna Barrie, 2025, 16mm 9 mins
• The Land at Night, dir. Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 2024, 16mm, 14 mins
• Fear of Floating, dir. Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 2024, 16mm, 7 min
• Intersection, dir. Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 2022, 16mm, 10 mins
• In and Out a Window, dir. Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie, 2021, 16mm, 12 mins
• Self-portrait with Bag, dir. Dianna Barrie, 2020, 16mm, 6 mins

Facilitated by Daniel Owusu.

Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne, Aus.) began making works on Super 8 in the late 1980s. After a brief hiatus from cinema (including formal study in philosophy for seven years), he returned to filmmaking, initially working exclusively in Super 8. The next five years saw an extremely productive period with dozens of experiments and works finished in the small gauge. In 2006, he, along with his partner Dianna Barrie, launched Nanolab, a Super 8 film processing laboratory based at their home in Daylesford, Victoria. The establishment of this lab afforded the opportunity to set up darkrooms and install 16mm film processing and, most importantly, printing and sound recording equipment. Since 2009, he has been an active and vocal member of the international artist-run film lab scene. In 2011, Richard and Dianna started the Artist Film Workshop, which in 2012 became a membership-based artist-run film lab, itself also part of the international labs network.

Dianna Barrie (b. 1972, Melbourne) found her way into filmmaking, grounded between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy, both of which she has studied formally at the postgraduate level. Ever pushing the limits of the hand processing of Super 8 led to the establishment of Nanolab with Richard Tuohy in 2006. Nanolab is a commercial Super 8 film processing laboratory, the only such lab in Australia. Dianna's film work could perhaps be characterised as 'direct chemical' filmmaking. Filmmaking generally begins with some form of camera image capture. This is followed by 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, where celluloid is embraced and advocated by a community of practitioners in Melbourne.