Richard Tuohy Filmes

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

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

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 '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....

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

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

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...

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...

Slow motion abstractions and analyses of bodies in motion.

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

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

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

A constant series of tiny collisions.

“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...

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...

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.

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...

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