Arthur Cantrill Movies

Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm...

A videographic film exploiting the phosphor textures on the cathode screen. Video images are filmed, filter-coloured and supered in the camera.

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

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...

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

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....

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

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...

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...

Charles Lloyd is an Australian artist whom we met in Sydney. He began working with printmaking when he moved to London around 1960. The film...

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

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

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...

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

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.

"These three films are derived from "Negative / Positive on Three Images" by Baldwin Spencer, which was copied in high-contrast material to make...

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...

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

The beauty of the Australian bush is depicted in a carefully composed camera choreography of different aspects of flora and fauna. Close-up and...

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