Arthur Cantrill Movies

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...

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

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

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children, with a minimum of instruction, build up pictures from a large variety...

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...

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

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....

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

3-colour separation film.

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

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

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...

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.

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

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

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

Sequences from the filmmakers' 16mm, Super 8 and Stand 8 mm work, dating from 1960 onwards, are contact-printed onto 35mm film, then reduced to 16mm...

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

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