Richard Tuohy Movies

Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in energetic celebration of their own endurance.

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

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...

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

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

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

A personal film, a diary, an essay, of Bill Mousoulis in December 1989.

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

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

Architectural distortions of the second city.

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...

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

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.

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...

A constant series of tiny collisions.

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

​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...

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

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...