The Movements of Bodies in Space: Seven experimental films on 16mm by Australian duo Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie

The Movements of Bodies in Space: Seven experimental films on 16mm, Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 2016-25, 80m Container X KEPK Tickets at the door on the night Last Train – Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, 12 mins, 2016 Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba, footage from a trailer for the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film “Kereta Api Terakhir” (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed (produced by chemistry, not by light) perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives. China not China – Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 14 mins, 2018 Hong Kong marked 20 years since its hand over; just under half way through the planned 50 year ‘one country, two systems’ transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China. Self-portrait with Bag – Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, 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. In and Out a Window – Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 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 – Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 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. Fear of Floating – Dianna Barrie and Richard Tuohy, 7 mins, 2024 Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty and hope. 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 and Dianna Barrie, 14 mins, 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… Tooborac – Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 9 mins, 2025 Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in ecstatic celebration of their own endurance Presented on 16mm with Richard Tuohy and Diana Barrie as projectionists. Post screening there will be a DJ set by Payman Meydani Early experiments with Persian instruments led Payman toward fusion, repetition, and sound design. His sets explore dubby, minimalist textures with a focus on rhythm and atmosphere. Unrated 15+ and in partnershio with KEPK

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