Arthur Cantrill Movies

TWO WOMEN records our passage through the tribal lands of the Central Australian region – a personal charting of this mythical landscape. The...

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...

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

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

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

16mm, colour reversal print

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

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

An experimental work about the Australian forests by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.

Timeless elements in a roll of film: stillness, movement, woman, girl, road, wind, sun, leaves. A triptych of a girl who reminds us of the face and...

'The Room of Chromatic Mystery' is (...) another three-colour separation film, shot in the living room of the Cantrills’ old house in...

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...

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

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...

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

Evening performances of traditional Balinese dance-drama in Ubud, shot single frame with open shutter exposures.

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.

A three colour separation study filmed at Pearl Beach, which examines the same scene of Amethyst Avenue during the progression of a winter, then a...

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...

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...