Richard Tuohy Movies

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...

Screens and partitions; windows and shutters; grids, curves and arches. Three peoples, one country: Malaysia.

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

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

Humanity approaches in an ineluctable wave of uncertainty, hope and inevitability. A ferry crossing in Mumbai stands here for all such places and...

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

A short film using the Pulfrich effect.

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...

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...

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...

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

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 constant series of tiny collisions.

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

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

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...

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

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

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