Arthur Cantrill Movies

A short animation of Charles Lloyd’s dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill.

Will Spoor is a Dutch performer, working in the abstract side of movement and mime. He has considerable knowledge of the potential of film and his...

The footage for this film was shot in London during our research into the Vorticist movement. It is a montage of images from the Vorticist magazine...

Timeless elements in a roll of film: stillness, movement, woman, girl, road, wind, sun, leaves. A triptych of a girl who reminds us of the face and...

This is a film about the work of the young French Vorticist sculptor who died in World War I and his ties to London and to Jacob Epstein, Wyndham...

"Island Fuse consists entirely of the monochromatic reprocessing of black and white footage that we filmed in the 1960s on the Isle of Stradbroke....

A camera calligraphy of the coastal bush -- celebrating growth, summer light, rock and plant textures.

An experimental work about the Australian forests by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which...

Does colour exist where there is no light? The garden is a setting for colour research: random objects are laid out in changing combinations for...

Experimental film using fireworks, often superimposed and in soft focus, printed in negative form with a black image on a white background. Plucked...

Located 18 miles west, Katatjuta (The Olgas) is a recurring presence in the background of Uluru. Believed by Aboriginal people to have been inhabited...

The Native Trees of Stradbroke Island (1964), consisting of four films: Banksia Integrifolia, Casuarina Equisetifolia, Pandanus Pedunculatus and...

Masses, crowds in the streets, traffic, large gatherings of people for political, religious, cultural events; TV newscasts – the tide of...

As the camera moves gently from afar into the very heart of the monolith, the magic of the holiest site of the Aborigines unfolds in shimmering...

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are two of Australia's most prominent experimental filmmakers. The Cantrills are well known for their 'colour separation'...

Super8 bi-packed onto 16mm with recurring patterns and combinations of superimpositions. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

TWO WOMEN records our passage through the tribal lands of the Central Australian region – a personal charting of this mythical landscape. The...

A three-colour separation of Ivor painting the Arf Arf group and performing with them on the soundtrack. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Made from image fragments from Will Spoor's footage, it was our first direct foray into the relationship between cinema and visual perception. It has...