Curated by Kerry Baldry

One Minute Volume 3 follows on from One Minute Volumes 1 and 2 and features over 30 artists at varying stages of their careers. An eclectic range of moving image and includes works whose original formats include 16mm film, Super 8 film and video using approaches such as stopframe animation, superimposition etc. Yet all the works have one thing in common, they are constrained by a time limit of sixty seconds.

Artists include:

Marty St.James, Louisa Minkin, Martin Pickles, Eva Rudlinger, Emily Richardson, Gordon Dawson, Nick Jordan, Richard Tuohy, Alex Pearl, Hollington & Kyprianou, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Katherine Meynell, Gary Peploe, Rose Butler, Leister/Harris, Kerry Baldry, Stuart Pound, Samantha Clark, Tansy Spinks, Tony Hill, Steven Ball, Virginia Hilyard, Dave Griffiths, Mark Wigan, Daniela Butsch, Nynke Deinema, Claire Morales, Nicolas Herbert, Matthew Rowe and Tina Keane.

Door opens 8.30pm

Entry by donation.

For further programme details visit cogcollective

A programme of experimental film curated by Richard Tuohy.

Hautnah/Skinflick Thorsten Fleisch

It's the flesh, the touching physicality and tiny inconsistencies in approximation and decay that give the analogue its vitality. The films in this selection, sourced from around the globe, all demonstrate a fascination with the analogue physicality of cine film, with its fragility and its presence, with the vitality of its fleshiness.

(All works in the programme have at some stage used film as a source material in its production.)

Dissolve
Aaron Valdez (USA)

Matar a Hitchcock (To Kill Hitchcock)
Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Spain)

Firebird Loop
Ben Popp (USA)

Hautnah/Skinflick
Thorsten Fleisch (Germany)

Touchez Pas
Ben Popp (USA)

Tiny Inconsistencies
Raymond Salvatore Harmon (USA)

Two Cities
Lea Becker (USA)

Doors open 8:30pm

Entry by donation.

For further programme details visit cogcollective

suek-artist invites all to participate in

This Orphans' Christmas

by bringing along your experimental film/video work, musical instruments, and performing bodies to create an evening of film and improvised dance/performance.

The BAck doOR is having an open screening and dance night and would like to invite all those old faces that have supported it over the last year, and any new ones as well, orphans or not, who are looking for some friendly faces and warm company with which to share a meal on this one day when all is closed.

There is no entry fee but a contribution to the shared meal would be most appreciated.

It would be great to see you all so put this one in your diary.

Doors will open at 7:30pm

suek-artist and nanolab will be conducting a four-day film shooting workshop. This workshop will be instructed by Richard Tuohy of nanolab. Each day the participants will be given the opportunity to shoot film using either a Standard 8 camera or a 16mm film camera which will then be processed for editing. The four day workshop will culminate in a screening of the work produced. This will take place in The BAck doOR on the 28th November.

FSFA is not a filmmaking course!  Rather, it's aimed at giving practicing artists working in other media the capacity to take their sensibilities into the realm of cine film.  This is a practical course.  Through a series of practical exercises we'll get you beyond the technical and technological challenges of working with film.  Starting from the basics of photography and the cine camera, we'll move through film handling, splicing and using projection equipment, we'll explore the range of cine film types you can get your hands and we'll get you processing, printing and digitising film.  We'll also go through various advanced techniques like back-winding, multiple exposing, using mattes, using filters, re-photographing and macro filming.

Each session will involve shooting film as a group, then each day the participants will be given a roll of film to shoot on their own, either with their own equipment or with equipment supplied.   The emphasis will be on affordable techniques and processes, including improvised film processing and various improvised printing techniques, D.I.Y. telecine and the use of alternative inexpensive stocks, etc. 

No prior film experience is necessary.   Nor do you need your own equipment (though you might have to wait your turn to use the supplied gear).  If you do have your own equipment (8mm, super 8 or 16mm), so much the better.  If you want to buy some equipment before the course, contact Richard Tuohy (0400 748 864) to discuss what might be suitable for your needs.  A light meter might be a useful initial equipment purchase. 

Time: 10am - 5pm

Dates: Sat 7th - Sun 8th, Sat 14th & 21st November

Cost: $280 unwaged; $320 waged
(cost includes material = one roll of film per day per participant plus processing. Extra rolls of film will be available at cost for those who wish to shoot extra film material)

If interested in participating in further workshops similar to the above, click on the email address towards the top of this page to be added to the email list and The BAck doOR will keep you up-to-date with all of its activities including further filmmaking workshops.

At what moment do two or more points in space and time create texture through synchronicity, syncopation, or an atonal clash? By positioning two temporal practices within the one performance space, experimental video and Contact Improvised dance, these moments, both dramatic and subtle, will be explored.

This programme continues the inquiries of the visual in projection and performance space, started last November at The BAck doOR, as it digs deep to find the perfect moments of stillness, of evocative texture and of explosive movement.

Performers:

Kara Fouhy

Having danced all over the world it was in San Francisco that Kara Fouhy first trained in Contact Improvisation Dance and from there that she set about honing her newly acquired skills. And it was while in London that Fouhy further developed her dance skills through the 5 Rythms technique. Upon her arrival in Melbourne in early 2006 she set about establishing The Play Space, a dance studio in Brunswick, with Kurt Prasse where she conducted classes in Contact Improvisation. Currently Fouhy is working to develop and extend her knowledge and skills in dance through practice and performance.

Stefanie Robinson

An experienced improvisition performer Robinson trained in physical theatre with John Bolton Theatre School. She discovered the joy of improvisation with Al Wonder and has rolled around with many fabulous teachers in Contact Improvisation. Robinson first performed with fire at dance parties and dressed in various costumes roving the streets at festivals around the world. Currently she divides her time between exploring physical story telling through dance, voice, imagery and working with community creating celebrations, parades and installations. It would be apt to describe her performance work as painting in space.


sue.k.

Trained as a visual artist in Perth, sue.k. first performed in 1992 in the production Quiet a collaborative work with Nigel Kellaway of the Sydney Front performance theatre group. The training embarked upon for this work was further extended upon in 1995 with the return of Kellaway to Perth. Living in Melbourne in 1996, sue.k. took up training in Contact Improvisation Dance with State of Flux. Returning to Perth the following year she continued in Contact Improvisation starting a weekly Contact Jam session, this was to continue for a number of years. sue.k. continues to train and to put into practice her skills and experience in body/movement work in Contact Improvisation Dance.

Shaun Plumtree

Shaun Plumtree is a highly versatile performer having trained in circus, physical theatre, and dance. His experience and knowledge include Comedia Del Arte, Ballet and Ballroom dancing, which set to compliment the circus skills he has acquired. A recent graduate from Australia's National Institute of Circus Arts, where he specialized in meteors and aerial hoop, Plumtree brings his dance experience and circus skills together in a unique combination that is set to thrill. Most recently he, with Ivan Smith, a co-graduate from NICA, and Alice Robinson have established the experimental performance company Red Button.

Music by: Glenn D'Cruz

Experimental video and sound by: sue.k.

Door will open at 8.00pm sharp with the event commencing immediately so don't be late.

Entry by donation.

Cine Abstracts is a showcase of recent film works by local experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy. These films exhibit a fascination with both nature-scapes and the power of the cine camera. Exploring largely in-camera photographic techniques such as matting, multiple exposing, pixilation, re-photography and colour separation etc., Tuohy seeks to find a nexus between his subject and his spring wound camera, aspiring to take us inside the landscapes – both human and natura – his films explore.

Doors open 8pm

Entry by donation.

For further programme details visit cogcollective

A programme of film and video work specifically using found-footage. In our day and age of reusing, recycling, anything and everything in an attempt to keep the earth's demise at bay it seems apt to revisit an approach of making film work that has been with us for eons. Bruce Conner was the master at it in the 1950s using film of any gauge, and many followed in his footsteps, yet today a multitude of possibilities in the genre is presented by a variety of technology.

This programme adds a new twist to found footage film work. Each participating artist has supplied the original source footage of a work that has already enjoyed public screenings. The source footage is then passed onto another to be used as source footage for a new work. In true Dadaist style, selection of footage for each artist was randomly conducted using a numerical calculation thus taking away any choice for all involved. There lies the challenge.

Steven Ball
"You have decided to accept the invitation to make the video..." (second person: past, present, future)
19 mins, video, UK, 2009

Paul Rodgers
Martin Arnold Meets Edweard Muybridge
8 mins, video, Aus, 2009

sue.k.
bild A pos, bild B pos, bild A neg, bild B neg
12 mins, video, Aus, 2009

Richard Tuohy
Landscape: Rippled and Rifted
9 mins, 16mm, Aus, 2009

Steven Ball
Pools Between Land
10 mins, Aus, 1991

Paul Rogers
Eclipses of the Sun
12 mins, 16mm, expanded cinema, Aus

sue.k.
card 4
8 mins, video, Aus, 2002

Richard Tuohy
bootfall
7 mins, video (shot on Super-8), Aus, 2008

Doors open 8pm

Entry by donation.

For further programme details visit cogcollective

The second in the series of artists' moving image curated by Kerry Baldry, One Minute Vol. 2 is an eclectic range of moving image and includes works whose original formats include 16mm film, Super 8 film and video using approaches such as stopframe animation, superimposition etc. Yet all the works have one thing in common, they are constrained by a time limit of one minute.

Artists include:

Gordon Dawson, Laure Prouvost, Martin Pickles, Marty St James, Eva Rudlinger, Steven Ball, Guy Sherwin, Luisa Minkin, Steve Hawley, Gary Peploe, Lynn Loo, Riccardo Iacono, Hilary Jack, Nicolas Herbert, Claire Morales, Catherine Elwes, Tina Keane, Kate Meynell, Kerry Baldry, Phillip Warnell, Nick Jordan, Margie Schnibbe, Stuart Pound, Esther Johnson, Mark Wigan, Andy Fear, Philip Sanderson, erica Scourti, Unconscious Films, Deklan Kilfeather

Door opens 8.00pm

Entry by donation.

For further details visit cogcollective

This projection event returns to the exploration begun with Flickers of Movement. Enquiries into the relationship and exchanges of dialogue that occur when dance/movement and the projected image are brought/thrown together within the performance/projection space will be made in an attempt to collapse both spaces into one unified whole.

Performers:

Brendan O'Connor

New to Australia, O'Connor brings with him a distinctive European style of dance that is much sought after. Trained at the Fontys Dans Academie in the Nederlands, O'Connor has been dancing for the last nine years and has had success performing professionally with a well-known touring dance company from the UK. Success for O'Connor has also been gained with his choreography of sharp crisp movement that explore a multi-dimension of edges other choreographers of his age miss.

Jonathan Sinatra

Sinatra originally trained in the mid '90s in physical theatre at Melbourne Uni while at the same time acquiring circus skills with Circus Oz. After discovering Contact Improvisation Dance and training with State of Flux in 1996-97 he went on to do an honours year at WAPA focussing on dance. After graduating there Sinatra relocated to Sydney where he took up work and training with Russell Dumas' dance company. With Dumas, Sinatra has travelled and taught Dumas' dance techniques throughout the world and has had success developing his own choreographed works.

sue.k.

Trained as a visual artist in Perth, sue.k. first performed in 1992 in the production Quiet a collaborative work with Nigel Kellaway of the Sydney Front performance theatre group. The training embarked upon for this work was further extended upon in 1995 with the return of Kellaway to Perth. Living in Melbourne in 1996, sue.k. took up training in Contact Improvisation Dance with State of Flux. Returning to Perth the following year she continued in Contact Improv starting a weekly Contact Jam session, this was to continue for a number of years. sue.k. continues to train and to put into practice her skills and experience in body/movement work in Contact Improvisation Dance.

Stefanie Robinson

An experienced improvisition performer Robinson trained in physical theatre with John Bolton Theatre School. She discovered the joy of improvisation with Al Wonder and has rolled around with many fabulous teachers in Contact Improvisation. Robinson first performed with fire at dance parties and dressed in various costumes roving the streets at festivals around the world. Currently she divides her time between exploring physical story telling through dance, voice, imagery and working with community creating celebrations, parades and installations. It would be apt to describe her performance work as painting in space.

Music by: Glenn D'Cruz

Film, Video and sound by: sue.k.

Door will open at 8.00pm sharp with the event commencing immediately so don't be late.

Entry by donation.

a programme of experimental screen work from Australia. A mix of film and video the programme brings together contemporary work from both established makers and newcomers to the experimental scene.   Curated by sue.k.



Richard Tuohy
Mallee Stretching
13 mins, original format Super-8, 2006


sue.k.
1/500OP+9blackfriars
15 mins, video, 2007


Dirk de Bruyn
Byron Bay Hysteria #03/09
4 mins, video, 2009


Dirk de Bruyn
Byron Bay #04/09
6 mins, video, 2009


Tobias Dundas
thirtythreeandathird
7 mins, video, 2008


sue.k.
film_1234
1:30 mins, video, 2007


David Brian Short
Fake Film
3 mins, video, 2008


sue.k.
2112
21 mins, video, 2009


Madeline Quirk
6 Miles to 1 Inch
3 mins, video, Australia, 2007


Richard Tuohy
Multitude Studies
18 mins, 16mm, multi-projection, 2009

6:30pm Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Innovation Centre Conference Room
Central St Martins
Southampton Row, London

entry is at the rear of the building and opposite to Red Lion Square

For further details visit cogcollective

Contrary to beliefs, Super-8 film never went away.

This programme brings back focus to the use of the Super-8 gauge in film practice with a presentation of a collection of Australian experimental Super-8 film, most of which have not been publicly screened before. Still preferred by many, Super-8 has been a favoured gauge internationally by such greats as Derek Jarman, as well as by well-known and significant makers of avant-garde and experimental film, such as Anthony McCall, Carolee Schneemann, and John Maybury. Australia itself has seen many of its productive artists using Super-8 and a number of Super-8 film groups come and go. Today Super-8 is still used by a number of practitioners.

Curated by Richard Tuohy.

Following on from the day's Super-8 Pinhole Workshop the programme will present the work filmed that day, hot from the processing tub, prior to the official screening of the S8 28 S8 programme.

Steven Ball
Blister (1990)
9 minutes

Louise Curham
Compilation (2003-2008)
10 minutes

Dianna Barrie
Ferny (2005)
5 minutes

Dianna Barrie
Creek (2008)
5 minutes

Virginia Hilyard
Hôtel Dunkerque (2009)
silent, 4 minutes

Moira Joseph
City Walk (1992)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
Paws (1993)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
By the Sea (2001)
3 minutes

Moira Joseph
Family Faces (2007)
5 minutes

Laressa Kosloff
Porsche (1999)
3 minutes

Laressa Kosloff
Wave Pool (2002)
3 minutes

Richard Tuohy
Mallee Stretching (2006-2008)
13 minutes

Maeve Woods
Tawdry Sass (1996)
5 minutes

Maeve Woods
Triad Tesseraic (1992)
9 minutes

Door opens at 8.00pm. Entry by donation.


For further details visit cogcollective

For pics from the day's event visit here.

Starting at 10am in the morning and culminating in an evening of Super-8 screening.

cost $60 waged, $50 unwaged (includes materials)

This one day workshop run by Richard Tuohy of nanolab will take the participants on a journey of discovery into the wonders of pinhole camera using the super-8 film medium. A simple but effective process of capturing image on film the pinhole camera provides the ideal mechanical device for exploring the multiple layers of beauty found in the film image.

Richard Tuohy has worked with super-8 and 16mm film since the 1980s and is a well-known and respected filmmaker. He, with his partner Diana, runs the film processing laboratory nanolab providing one of the few places left that processes super-8 film.

Richard will take the workshop partcipants through the steps of shooting super-8 film with the pinhole camera. The footage shot will be processed during the course of the workshop with a screening of the particpant's work occurring later that night.

Bookings close 22nd March 2009

Be Quick, Book Now!!!

or phone +61 (0)3 9005 7054

(please note a deposit may be requested)

This programme pulls together work from the four distant geographical points of Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore and the United States.

Door opens at 8.30pm. Entry by donation.

sue.k.
liverpool223355 (2006)
video, 28 mins, UK

Steven Ball
Cryptic Burgess Dub (2006)
video, 12 mins, UK

Lynn Loo
Floating (2005)
video, 3 mins, Singapore/USA

Steven Ball
The Defenestrascope (2003)
video, 5 mins, UK

Paul Martin
The Thames from Charing Cross Bridge - A Study (1993)
super 8, 6 mins, silent, UK

David Brian Short
Fake Film (2008)
video, 2 mins, Aus

Tobias Dundas
thirtythreeandathird (2008)
video, 7 mins, Aus

sue.k.
steps---89 (2003)
video, 17 mins, UK/Aus

For further details visit cogcollective

Following on from the success of the first event in The BAck doOR, suek-artist and cogcollective presents a night of single and multi-projected works. A night of seduction that only film can create. Come and experience the beguiling nature of film passing through the projector gate and the flicker of light that emanates from within the projector beam. This programme brings together works from three of Australia's best experimental filmmakers, Dirk de Bruyn, Richard Tuohy and Nick Ostrovskis.

Door opens at 8.30pm. Entry by donation.

Dirk de Bruyn
Running (1976)
16mm, 35 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
Williamstown (1988)
Super-8, 7 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
The White Tree (1987)
Super-8, 4 mins

Nick Ostrovskis
Rough Geometry (1993)
Super-8, 4 mins

Richard Tuohy
Multitude Studies (2009)
multi-projection
16mm, 18 mins

For further details visit cogcollective