Arthur Cantrill Movies

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...

Ayers Rock is examined in the light of its ancient human and animal associations. It is seen under various light effects which create different...

The film Harry Hooton is conceived as a huge energy field combining the energy of light and colour, movement, editing and sound — a dense,...

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

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...

It's a three-colour separation study of MacKenzie Falls in the Grampians, Victoria.

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

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

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...

A film about recreation and learning, made during the Cantrills’ four-year residence in London, similarly tinctured by Herbert Read’s...

Each screen shows exposure variations in a room with a seated figure, the sunlit bush seen through large windows, its tonality altering with the...

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

Coastal scenes filmed with an energetic pattern of two frames image/two frames black, intercut with Ivor Cantrill’s painting of the scene....

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

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

One of the main “mysteries” of working with the lab involves grading the print: adjusting or “correcting” the color balance...

Hand-drawn directly onto 16mm film, this animation is a 'diary' of daily drawing-on-film practice by Ivor Cantrill over a period of 18 months....

Filmed on l6mm Kodachrome which heightens the textures and depth of this harsh landscape -- a study in browns, yellows, greys and blue sky.

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

It was made quickly, in a student-style way, to be shown at a student drama festival. In the main sequence, we continue to explore the nature of...