Richard von Sturmer is a writer and film-maker. His written work has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals, including Landfall, Sport, brief, and the NZ Listener. Four collections of his writing have been published: We Xerox Your Zebras (Modern House, 1988), A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (HeadworX, 2005) and On the Eve of Never Departing (Titus Books, 2009).
The first in a series of brief films which explore correspondences between inner and outer worlds.
A brief, poetic film using words found on headstones in cemeteries in Auckland.
An exploration of the abandoned Yates Building on the corner of Albert Street and Wolfe Street in Auckland City.
The first of twenty-six Tanka Films—a tanka is an unrhymed Japanese verse form of five lines.