Richard Tuohy Movies

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

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...

Slow motion abstractions and analyses of bodies in motion.

Flyscreen is a camera-less ‘rayogram’ film, made by layering fly-screen material onto raw 16mm film stock and then exposing to light. The...

Film performance with three 16mm projectors. Lines change size and frequency as the camera zooms closer and pulls further away. From these lines, the...

​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...

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

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

'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 constant series of tiny collisions.

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

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,...

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 '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....

Refraction can be very satisfying. Especially when working with camera original Ektachrome on 16mm. There is nothing not to love about camera...

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

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...

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

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...