Francis Plagne is a musician from Melbourne whose work swings between songwriting and a variety of other approaches, including group improvisation, instrumental abstraction and domestic musique concrète. He has been performing live regularly since 2005 and had released recordings on Albert’s Basement, Breakdance the Dawn, Lost and Lonesome, Kye Records and his own Mould Museum label, among others. In addition to performing his own work either solo or with a band, he has performed and recorded in improvised and other arrangements with Oren Ambarchi, Anthea Caddy, Andrew Chalk, Marco Fusinato, Dean Roberts, Valerio Tricoli and Joe Talia, among others. Since 2011, he has occasionally convened a variably sized ensemble to perform scores by composers such as Manfred Werder, Christian Wolff and Toshi Ichiyanagi.

Giles Fielke is an orthographer interested by constitutive gaps in media, between the image and language. He is currently working on a Phd project which investigates the pharmacology of cinema and systems for organisation in the context of the history of modern art.

Dianna Barrie found her way into filmmaking as a middle ground between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy. Ever pushing the limits of the hand processing of super 8 led to the establishment of nanolab with Richard Tuohy, and into the intersection of hand making and industrial cinema technology. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to the establishment of Artist Film Workshop, where celluloid is embraced and advocated by a community of practitioners in Melbourne.

Please see Tuohy’s short biography as filmmaker-curator in the “Artist Film Workshop Screening Programme” section.