Arthur Cantrill Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

3-colour separation film.

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...

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

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