Richard Tuohy Movies

A staccato study of street level action and inter-action. People and vehicles on everyday journeys are atomised into coursing fragments of light,...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

An abstract exploration of the curves and twists of the Australian alpine tree the ‘Snow Gum’ – Eucalyptus Pauciflora.

On Christmas eve in 1974, the city of Darwin was devastated by Cyclone Tracy. In this expanded cinema piece, a single film print, featuring only...

A constant series of tiny collisions.

'The Mallee' is the name given to the arid north west corner of Victoria. Ironically, given it is the most arid part of the state, 'The Mallee' is...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Screens and partitions; windows and shutters; grids, curves and arches. Three peoples, one country: Malaysia.

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

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 movement study of a restless hand. Made from one five second shot, with sound constructed from an old French folk tune played on a hand cranked...