Arthur Cantrill Movies

  • 1989
    Myself When Fourteen

    Myself When Fourteen

    Myself When Fourteen

    01989HD

    Brightly coloured animated drawings rotoscoped from high contrast black and white negative film of Ivor Cantrill aged 14, are integrated with the...

    Myself When Fourteen
  • 1984
    Rainbow Diary

    Rainbow Diary

    Rainbow Diary

    01984HD

    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....

    Rainbow Diary
  • 1969
    Home Movie – A Day in the Bush

    Home Movie – A Day in the Bush

    Home Movie – A Day in the Bush

    51969HD

    A film of repeated movements toward the camera, away from the camera, and across the camera's field, punctuated by a 360-degree rotational movement...

    Home Movie – A Day in the Bush
  • 1978
    Meteor Crater – Gosse Bluff

    Meteor Crater – Gosse Bluff

    Meteor Crater – Gosse Bluff

    01978HD

    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...

    Meteor Crater – Gosse Bluff
  • 1997
    Airey’s Inlet

    Airey’s Inlet

    Airey’s Inlet

    01997HD

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

    Airey’s Inlet
  • 1966
    Adventure Playground – London

    Adventure Playground – London

    Adventure Playground – London

    61966HD

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

    Adventure Playground – London
  • 1986
    Notes on Berlin – The Divided City

    Notes on Berlin – The Divided City

    Notes on Berlin – The Divided City

    01986HD

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

    Notes on Berlin – The Divided City
  • 1978
    Interior/Exterior

    Interior/Exterior

    Interior/Exterior

    01978HD

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

    Interior/Exterior
  • 1984
    At Black Range

    At Black Range

    At Black Range

    01984HD

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

    At Black Range
  • 1996
    Articulated Image

    Articulated Image

    Articulated Image

    01996HD

    short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

    Articulated Image
  • 1980
    Experiments in Three-Colour Separation

    Experiments in Three-Colour Separation

    Experiments in Three-Colour Separation

    01980HD

    A documentary involving the work done by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill since 1975 in 3-colour separation. Also discussed are the classic theories and...

    Experiments in Three-Colour Separation
  • 1978
    Heat Shimmer

    Heat Shimmer

    Heat Shimmer

    01978HD

    3-colour separation film.

    Heat Shimmer
  • 1969
    Rehearsal at the Arts Lab

    Rehearsal at the Arts Lab

    Rehearsal at the Arts Lab

    01969HD

    It was filmed from photographs of a rehearsal by Will Spoor of a Tardieu work at the Arts Laboratory, Drury Lane. The photos were taken before...

    Rehearsal at the Arts Lab
  • 1977
    Near Coober Pedy

    Near Coober Pedy

    Near Coober Pedy

    01977HD

    A study of the desert plain that is not left out of foliage or geological structures, inviting us to compare it with the plain of the sea and the...

    Near Coober Pedy
  • 1970
    Gold Fugue

    Gold Fugue

    Gold Fugue

    01970HD

    Images of gold in nature and art are repeated in a fugal structure from one screen to the next. The extra potential for image structuring provided by...

    Gold Fugue
  • 1963
    Banksia Integrifolia

    Banksia Integrifolia

    Banksia Integrifolia

    01963HD

    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.

    Banksia Integrifolia
  • 1963
    Banksia Serrata

    Banksia Serrata

    Banksia Serrata

    01963HD

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

    Banksia Serrata
  • 1968
    Red Stone Dancer

    Red Stone Dancer

    Red Stone Dancer

    41968HD

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

    Red Stone Dancer
  • 1977
    At Uluru

    At Uluru

    At Uluru

    01977HD

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

    At Uluru
  • 1977
    Ocean at Point Lookout

    Ocean at Point Lookout

    Ocean at Point Lookout

    01977HD

    16mm, colour reversal print

    Ocean at Point Lookout