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Monday April 8, 7PM<\/strong><\/span>
\n Dirty Handed Cinema<\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm films by Richard Tuohy<\/span>
\n admission $6 – artist in attendance<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\n\u00a9 Image courtesy of Richard Tuohy<\/p>\n

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\nMicroscope presents a rare screening of new and recent hand-made 16mm films by Richard Tuohy on tour in the US from his native Australia. The six films in the program were hand processed and printed by the artist on a salvaged 16mm contact printer using techniques developed through his experimentation with the salvaged film lab equipment. Tuohy is part a burgeoning artist-run film lab movement, which utilizes recovered technological left-overs from film industry as it sheds much of its traditional machinery. Tuohy says he sees the change is an opportunity a kind of liberation for the filmmaker \u2013 allowing experimentation in areas that previously were too often a costly mystery kept in the hands of professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026While often originating with images from nature, my films are at base about form, structure, time and pattern, rather than about content in any direct sense. Ultimately, they are more about \u2018looking\u2019 than \u2018thinking\u2019.\u201d RT<\/span><\/p>\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong><\/span>
\n Approximately 70 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Iron-wood<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm film, 7 minutes, 2009<\/span>
\n Iron-wood is an abstract visual exploration of the deeply fissured ‘cog-like’ bark of the Australian tree Eucalyptus Sideroxylon – Red Ironbark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tasmanian Splintering<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm, 14 minutes, 2011<\/span>
\n Bones of a dead Tasmanian forest colourfully \u2018 re-animated\u2019 in a film printer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dot Matrix<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm x 2, 22 minutes, 2013<\/span>
\n Working from the original photogram \u2019dot\u2019\u00a0 material from Richard\u2019s film Screen Tone<\/em> (2012), Dot Matrix<\/em> is an expanded cinema performance involving two almost completely overlapping projected images.\u00a0 The \u2018dots\u2019 were produced by photogramming sheets of half-tone \u2018dot\u2019 paper intended for use as shadings comic illustrations directly onto raw 16mm film stock.\u00a0 These dots were then contacted printed with \u2018flicker\u2019 (alternating black frames). The \u2018drama\u2019 of the film happens in the overlap of the two images.\u00a0 The product they make is greater than the parts.\u00a0 As in Screen Tone, the sounds heard are those that the dots themselves produce as they pass the optical sound head of the 16mm projector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Etienne\u2019s Hand<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm, 13 minutes, 2011<\/span>
\n A movement study of a restless hand.\u00a0 Made from one five second shot.\u00a0 Sound constructed from an old French folk tune played on a hand cranked music box.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flyscreen<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm, 8 minutes, 2010<\/span>
\n Flyscreen is a camera-less \u2018rayogram\u2019 film, made by layering fly-screen material onto raw 16mm film stock and then exposing to light.\u00a0 The sound heard is the optical sound of the images passing the 16mm optical sound head.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seoul Electric<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n 16mm, 7 minutes, 2012<\/span>
\n A North Asian metropolis.\u00a0 Electricity wires draped like thick webs adorn the streetscape. Expolsive sparks of colour electrify the frame.\u00a0Filmed in Seoul in black and white.\u00a0 Colourised during processing using coloured torch light.<\/span>
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\n Richard Tuohy is one of the most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in Australia. His film \u2018Iron-Wood\u2019 won first prize (ex aequo) at \u2018Abstracta 2009\u2019 experimental film festival in Rome. He runs Nanolab in Australia \u2013 the specialist small gauge film processing laboratory. He actively encourages other artists to work with cine film through his Artist Film Workshop initiative (see artistfilmworkshop.org<\/span><\/a>). He is also a founding director of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival.\u00a0 Tuohy\u2019s films have screened at fRotterdam International\u00a0 Film Festival, Ann Arbour Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, FLEXFest , Onion City Film Festival, Abstracta, EXiS (Seol) and KLEX festival among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u00a9 All images are courtesy of Richard Tuohy
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