Richard Tuohy Movies

High country, high contrast. A collision of lines and patterns from the wood of burnt trees.

Half-tone dot "screens" intended for use as shadings and tones in Manga comic illustrations have here been "photogrammed" directly onto raw 16mm film...

A 'rover' lands on a red planet and explores its mysterious surroundings. This film was made at the time of the Huygens/Cassini probe to Titan....

Pear Shapes ... one of two 'weed' films I made. In the 1950s, prickly pear was a major weed problem in Australia. This is one weed we managed to beat...

Across the sea. Across the street. Cross processed and grain-enlarged images of fraught neighbours Korea and Japan who have difficulty making each...

Motorcycles and cars are lost in the sound of traffic and disappear in bands sliced into film footage of Jakarta’s roads. The horizontal and...

Iron-wood is an abstract visual exploration of the deeply fissured 'cog-like' bark of the Australian tree Eucalyptus Sideroxylon (Red Ironbark).

A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.

A performer descends the stairs. Direct film mattes frame glimpses of the motion. Phase-looping duplicates the glimpses into a cascade of humanity. A...

A constant series of tiny collisions.

A restless hand, folding and folding onto itself. It makes no sound... and all the sound in the world. In the era of covid, we have become used to...

It is an experimental film in which the best of the structural film tradition merges with an urban symphony. A busy intersection is a plentiful...

Experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy provides a glimpse of the world defined by the mechanical art of film. On the Invention of the Wheel becomes a...

The evening seemed very disturbing to me, as if the approaching night was something to be feared. It was as if, when night fell, you couldn't escape...

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

Architectural distortions of the second city.

A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything—the land, plants, the sky—shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us...

The literal frame of a window overlooking a small garden becomes the scene through which Richard Tuohy’s film exploits the myriad plastic...

Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty, hope and inevitability. A ferry crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and...

Hong Kong marked twenty years since its hand over; halfway through the planned forty year "one country, two systems" transition. Taiwan, once...