Filmmaker, Richard Tuohy comes through Baltimore on tour from Australia! He will present a program of 16mm films, followed by a workshop with Sight Unseen (sold out) on his innovative processing technique, Chromaflex!
*Richard Tuohy: Hand-Crafted Cinema* *Friday, October 24th* *The Red Room * *425 E. 31st Street, **Baltimore, MD 21218* *Doors 8:30pm//Screening 9pm* *$6 * While many commercial film labs are shutting there doors, a counter movement is taking place in the form of the international network of artist-run film labs. The Australian experimental filmmaker, Richard Tuohy – a prominent figure in this cinematic d-i-y turn – sees this new phase for the traditional media as an opportunity; as a chance for the film artist to directly engage with the once inaccessible, now too often discarded tools of the traditional film lab. Tuohy's hand crafted cinema presents us with multiple visual manipulations in camera, in printer techniques, in experimental processing procedures and in projection to sculpt an activated and reanimated reality which collectively represent a distinctively cinematic experience. More visual then cerebral, these pictures move, and with an energy unique to film. While covering a range of techniques, strategies and visual themes, they each share the same tenacious unfolding of a set of abstract possibilities from out of singular visual ideas. This program presents eight hand-processed and d-i-y printed 16mm film works from the artists 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. “These films are all firmly situated in the hand crafted film tradition. All works are hand processed from camera neg, optical sound neg, intermediates and opticals to final prints. This is done in part out of necessity, but also out of a sense of opportunity; while the closure of commercial film labs has meant that it has become increasingly difficult to access traditional laboratory services, it has also created an opportunity for artists to get their hands on this now largely redundant equipment, providing access for experimentation and exploration of a new set of creative possibilities. These works speak of that new opportunity!” – Richard Tuohy PROGRAM (All films on 16mm) Iron-wood 2009, 7 minuets, 16mm Flyscreen 2010, 8 minutes, 16mm Seoul Electric 2012, 7 minutes, 16mm Tree Lines 2009, 7 minutes, 16mm Ginza Strip 2014, 9 minutes, 16mm Etienne’s Hand 2011, 13 minutes, 16mm Blue Line Chicago 2014, 10 minutes, 16mm Dot Matrix 2013, 16 minutes, 2 x 16mm SIGHT UNSEEN (Film synopses on view) http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsightunseenbaltimore.com%2F&h=2AQGGc84W&enc=AZPG-8jNNCcrT_Ea1w60LX6z72Oq0bnkmQAnZ0YOBpZnJ8o3HO87voENcyB1oCFAAMw&s=1> NANO LAB http://www.nanolab.com.au/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nanolab.com.au%2F&h=FAQHHrAj5&enc=AZOIn5Xoe6bvS3YrSWWULE3ruo4KbfHOEioZlwCfHyJydq_xx59dCcCDB6IOZGdF9fg&s=1> -- http://margaretrorison.com/ http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/ (443) 695-4228
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