Richard Tuohy Movies

A couple, Steve and Louise, quit their respective office jobs, deciding to follow their inner desires and their aspirations to be artistic.

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

Across the sea. Across the street. Cross processed and grain-enlarged images of fraught neighbours Korea and Japan who have difficulty making each...

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...

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...

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

Barcelona, immediately after the independence referendum. Shot on black and white film stock using a re-invented colour separation technique....

A personal, diary film, about love, the cinema, faith, desire, affirmation.

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

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

Bones of a dead Tasmanian forest colourfully ‘ re-animated’ in a film printer.

“Tree ferns filmed and then re-filmed on black and white film are inter-cut to produce a collage of green tinted positive images and green...

A chronicle filming the journey from the directors' accomodation in Seoul to the Space Cell labs and workshops.

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

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

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 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).

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

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