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.

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

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

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

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

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

A constant series of tiny collisions.

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

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

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

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

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...

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

Slow motion abstractions and analyses of bodies in motion.

The Ginza of fable and memory. This is the first film I have finished using the “chromaflex” technique that we developed at Nanolab. This...

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

“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 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...

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...

Workers of the word, in yellow vests, building other people's dreams.