Next Klinker Club: Saturday 27th September 2025, at The Bennett Centre, Vicarage Street, Frome BA11 1PU. Doors 7:30pm for a 7:45 / 8pm start. £10 or £6 concessions (pensioners, students, low wage) CASH on the door. BYOB! WWW.KLINKERCLUB.ORG

Klinker: Musics / film / performance / noise / jazz / improv / unclassified / declassified / ossified

Featuring: Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, George Finlay Ramsey and Elliot Galvin, Hugh Metcalfe

Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie ‘Bumping into the Frame': Constructive Collisions and the Apparatus of Cinema’

This program brings together seven handcrafted film works by Australian analogue experimentalists Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie. Across five years of creative exploration, these films stand as individual experiments in form and structure, each imbued with its own poetic resonance. Rooted firmly in the tactile processes of handmade cinema, the works navigate diverse terrains—landscapes, bodies, urban streets, and the cinematic frame. Through a dialogue between materiality and image, these films investigate how the apparatus of cinema itself shapes perception and meaning.

Viewers are invited to experience the constructive collisions between subject and medium, between object and frame, and between successive individual film frames at the heart of the cinema apparatus. 

Tooborac 9 mins, 2025
Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central
Victoria dance in ecstatic celebration of their own endurance.

Nude, Descending  9 mins, 2025
A performer descends the stairs.  Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the
motion.   Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity.
A game played with colour separations, motion following hand scratched and
painted mattes and a perpetual descending figure.

The Land at Night  14 mins, 2024
I used to find the dusk a very unsettling time, as though the approaching
night was something to be feared. It was as if, once night fell you could
not flee, and had to face unspecified consequences. Maybe the land
remembers and the night will reveal what we might have done...

Fear of Floating  7 mins, 2024
Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty and hope. A ferry
crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and times of human
expansion and human vulnerability.

Intersection  10 mins, 2022
A staccato study of street level action and inter-action. People and
vehicles on everyday journeys are atomised into coursing fragments of
light, shadow, angle and inertia, reiterating and disassembling the
creation of motion out of still frames at the heart of cinema. Filmed in
ten cities on four continents.

In and Out a Window  12 mins, 2021
Our front window, from inside and out. Made during a long covid lockdown. A
product of the distraction and abstraction that resulted from a lot of
staring at the same pieces of glass.

Self-portrait with Bag  6 mins, 2020
A camera-less portrait of the artist. Super 8 cartridges placed inside a black cotton bag, the film advanced via a hand crank. The tiny gaps in the fabric weave make for dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of tiny pinholes.

Elliot Galvin and George Finlay Ramsey

Composer instrumentalist Elliot Galvin, and badmusician / goodpoet George Finlay Ramsay are wondering if horses dream more when sleeping lying down, and if so, what are they dreaming about? Could it be God? This may involve some modular synthesis and a cape. Elliot Galvin is a long-time trailblazer in the UK jazz firmament with five solo albums that have seen him top album of the year lists at the likes of Downbeat and Jazzwise, as well as being a member of the Mercury nominated Dinosaur, and collaborating with Shabaka Hutchings, Emma-Jean Thackray, Norma Winstone, Marius Neset and Mark Lockheart. George Finlay Ramsay: (b. Dundee, Scotland, bad back, eczema, bipolar spectrum) is an artist working with the love of volcanoes, poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. His first artistic acts occurred at the age of three, and involved inventing a religion with sticks, and setting his room on fire. Subsequent acts include burning hundreds of regrets in volcanoes (2017–2018). He has collaborated with Coby Sey, Mica Levi, CA Conrad and Rudi Zygaldo. 

Hugh Metcalfe: A Solo Super 8 film performance

“Never Knowingly Underrated Since 1972”


A taste of the unique world vision and 40 odd year career of the musician; filmmaker; artist; poet; Klinker Club organiser; anarchist; disruptor that is Hugh Metcalfe, as poured through the gate of Hugh’s Super 8 camera. This set features recently hand processed films from 2023 - 2025.

Surreal, honest, silly, and deeply philosophical, Hugh’s poetry, films and music (some say) sit somewhere between genius and the unfathomable. Co-conspirators along the way have included legendary sound poet Bob Cobbing, Penny Rimbaud (Crass),Tony Oxley and Lulu (possibly.) His own experimental improv bands The Bugger All Stars and Fuck Off Batman are still together, despite having to endure occasional personnel changes whilst members go off to play with the likes of Peter Gabriel, The Pogues and PiL.

A night at Klinker Club, founded by Hugh in 1982, is still a place to expect the marginalised and mental. Arts Council England have never been involved!