Arthur Cantrill Movies

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....

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

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

Synopsis Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Pandanus...

An experimental film to see how much information the eye can take in from continuous single frame images and from single frames of widely different...

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...

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

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

Experimental Super 8 film from 2001 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...

At Black Range (1984) was shot near the Grampians in Western Victoria, and features monumental monochrome rocks with rainbow shadows and...

"On several occasions we were impressed by the apparent vitality of some spools with arbitrary discards, compared to the laboriously assembled...

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...

The 360 degree camera movements in opposing directions on each screen are filmed from the centre of the crater. A stereo track of wind, crows and...

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

Single frame glimpses of life in Ubud, Bali, to Kecak Music. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

War-damaged facades, the frozen lakes of the Tiergarten, the Golden Angel of Victory, The Wall. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Banksia Integrifolia.