Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, Dot Matrix
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Dot Matrix, by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
Dot Matrix, by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, uses two projectors slightly offset from one another. Each film contains a flicker printing of various sized dots. The dots were produced by “rayogramming” dot screens (used in manga cartoons) directly onto raw film stock in the dark room. The sound you hear is the sound produced by the dots themselves. The ‘drama’ in this work is generated by the interference patterns created by the otherwise regular arrays of dots.
2 x 16mm. B&W/Sound. 2013. 16 min
This film will screen as part of The Unseen Festival at Counterpath on Saturday, September 23, 2017.


There are two sides to nanolab. Firstly, nano is a commercial super 8 film lab, the spirit of which is to make super 8 a possible option for artists and the general community in Australia. Secondly, as the home lab for experimental filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, nanolab is an active element in the international artist-run film lab movement. The nanolab team spend a good part of each year conducting workshops in the art and practice of do-it-yourself filmmaking. In Australia these workshops are usually run at the Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne which the nanolab team started. Nanolab also offers residencies for artists (especially from the Asian region) to stay and work at the lab in rural Victoria.