Richard Tuohy Movies

'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...

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...

Workers of the word, in yellow vests, building other people's dreams.

In 2012, Richard Tuohy made "Screen Tone" using patterns of dots printed straight to 16mm film. By doubling this principle in "Dot Matrix", a third,...

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

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...

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...

Filmed on the broad, tree-less expanse of the Hay Plain, Horizontals makes a game of the endless horizon.

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...

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...

Architectural distortions of the second city.

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

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

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

A constant series of tiny collisions.

Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api...

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...

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...

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

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.