2024. Jan, 27th 7pm at space cell

Bodies in Space

A programme of short films by Australian experimental FIlmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie that take us from covid silence  to pulsating mega cities. 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.

In and Out a Window

12 mins, 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

10 mins, 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.

Valpi 

9 minutes, 2019

A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.

Self Portrait with Bag

6 mins, 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. 

Bus, Turning

7 mins, 2023

Barcelona, immediately after the independence referendum.  Shot on black and white film stock using a re-invented colour separation technique.  Dedicated to the spirit of independence everywhere!

Like a Lighthouse

12 mins, 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.

Fear of Floating

7 min,  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.