Richard Tuohy Movies

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

A North Asian metropolis. Electricity wires draped like thick webs adorn the streetscape. Expolsive sparks of colour electrify the frame. Filmed in...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Architectural distortions of the second city.

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...

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 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...

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

​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...