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BiographyHistory

Well-known internationally for their films and publishing, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill began their professional partnership as filmmakers in 1963, their first foray into film production being a series of independent short films on child arts and crafts for ABC Television. In 1969, they travelled to London on a two-year fellowship from the Australian National University and, after returning to Australia, undertook a series of lecture and screening tours to promote an appreciation of avant-garde film. For these exhibitions, they showed their multi-projection and film-performance work.

Due to its non-commercial nature, much of the Cantrills's enormous output of work (more than 140 films and film-performance works) has been produced and exhibited by the filmmakers themselves. In this respect, they have been interested in exploring both the process of filming and the audience perception of visuals, with a particular fixation upon the use of landscape in order to create a national identity. Their films vary in duration from two minutes for Zap (1971) to 148 minutes for In This Life's Body (1984). They are also represented in several film collections, including those of The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (Berlin), Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), New York Museum of Modern Art, PRÉA (Avignon), The British Council, and the National Library of Australia. Their films have been shown at the Centre Pompidou and The Louvre in Paris and the New York Museum of Modern Art, as well as other art museums and film festivals.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • FILMOGRAPHY: [* 3-screen film ; ** 3-colour separation film ; *** 2-screen film]

    1960s:

    • 1960-1963: A series of children's art-and-craft episodes (11 episodes, each 10 min.). Broadcast on ABC TV. [Titles are 'Glove Puppets 1: Making Heads'; 'Glove Puppets 2: Painting Heads and Dressing'; 'Glove Puppets 3: Scenery and Production'; 'Shadow Play'; 'Bottles into Dolls'; 'Henny Penny Comes to Life'; 'Looking at Insects'; 'Looking at Leaves'; 'Looking at Trees'; 'Making Window Pictures'; and 'Metal Collage'.]
    • ca. 1960-1963: The Odyssey (10 episodes, with shadow puppets, each 10 min.). Broadcast on ABC TV.
    • ca. 1960-1963: Kip and David (13 episodes, each 12 min.). Broadcast on ABC TV.
    • ca. 1960-1963: Zoo (30 min.). Broadcast on ABC TV.
    • ca. 1960-1963: Several television interludes (each 5 min.). Broadcast on ABC TV [incl. 'Tower of Blocks', 'Feeding the Ducks', and 'Pebbles'].
    • ca. 1960-1963: Four studies of native flora (6 min. each). Broadcast on ABC TV. ['Banksia Serrata,' 'Banksia Integrifolia,' 'Pandanus Pedunculatus,' and 'Casurina Equisetifolia'.]
    • 1963: Mud (4 min.)
    • 1963: Galaxy (4 min.)
    • 1963: Nebulae (4 min.)
    • 1963: Kinegraffiti (4 min.)
    • 1964-1965: Robert Klippel Sculpture Studies (5 films, each 5 min.)
    • 1965: Robert Klippel Drawings, 1947-1963 (25 min.)
    • 1966: The Incised Image (25 min.)
    • 1966: Dream (4 min.)
    • 1966: Adventure Playground, London (6 min.)
    • 1967: Burghers of Calais (8 min.)
    • 1968: Moving Statics Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (30 min.)
    • 1968: Red Stone Dancer (6 min.)
    • 1969: Moving Statics (28 min.)
    • 1969: Rehearsal at the Arts Laboratory (4 min.)
    • 1969: Imprints (4 min.)
    • 1969: Fud 69 (6 min.)
    • 1969: Home Movie: A Day in the Bush (4 min.)
    • 1969: Eikon (3 min., 30 sec.)
    • 1969: White-Orange-Green (4 min.)

  • 1970s:

    • 1970: Bouddi (8 min.)
    • 1970: 4000 Frames: An Eye-Opener Film (3 min.)
    • 1970: Earth Message (23 min.)
    • 1970: Harry Hooton (83 min.)
    • 1971: New Movements Generate New Thoughts (11 min.)
    • 1971: The Boiling Electric Jug Film (8 min.)
    • 1971: Blast (6 min.)
    • 1971: Meditations (6 min.)
    • 1971: Nine Image Film (3 min.)
    • 1971: Milky Way Special (3 min.)
    • 1971: Zap (2 min.)
    • 1971: Video Self-Portrait (6 min.)
    • 1971: Gold Fugue (3 min.)*
    • 1971: Pink Metronome (3 min.)*
    • 1971: Room (5 min.)*
    • 1971: The City (8 min.)*
    • 1971: Fragments (13 min.)*
    • 1971: Island Fuse (11 min.)
    • 1973: Skin of Your Eye (117 min.)
    • 1974: At Eltham (24 min.)
    • 1974: Reflections on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901 (17 min.)
    • 1974: Negative/Positive on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901 (10 min.)
    • 1975: Studies in Image (De)Generation Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (each 10 min.)
    • 1976: Three Colour Separation Studies - Landscapes (13 min.)**
    • 1976: Three Colour Separation Studies - Still Lifes (13 min.)**
    • 1976: Simple Observations of a Solar Eclipse (16 min.)
    • 1977: Touching the Earth Series:
      • 1. Ocean at Point Lookout (46 min.)
      • 2. Near Coober Pedy (15 min.)
      • 3. At Uluru (80 min.)
      • 4. Katatjuta (24 min.)
    • 1978: Moving Picture Postcards (16 min.)**
    • 1978: Heat Shimmer (13 min.)**
    • 1978: Hillside at Chauritchi (6 min.)
    • 1978: Near Wilmington (6 min.)
    • 1978: Meteor Crater, Gosse Bluff (6 min.)*
    • 1978: Ocean (15 min.)*
    • 1978: Interior/Exterior (3 min.)***
    • 1978: Printer Light Play (6 min.)
    • 1979: Angophora and Sandstone (15 min.)**
    • 1979: Coast at Pearl Beach (11 min.) **
    • 1979: Notes on the Passage of Time (14 min.)**

  • 1980s:

    • 1980: Grain of the Voice Series:
      • 1. Rock Wallaby and Blackbird (66 min.)
      • 2. Two Women (32 min.)
      • 3. Seven Sisters (19 min.)
    • 1980: Unthurqua (6 min.)
    • 1980: Warrah (15 min.)**
    • 1980: Experiments in Three-Colour Separation (21 min.)**
    • 1980: Two-Colour Separation Studies (16 min.)
    • 1980: Pan/Colour Separations (11 min.)**
    • 1981: The Second Journey (To Uluru) (74 min.)
    • 1981: Wilpena (23 min.)
    • 1981: Time/Colour Separations (18 min.)**
    • 1981: Floterian - Hand Printings From a Film History (12 min.)
    • 1983: Corporeal (18 min.)***
    • 1983: Passage (65 min.)***
    • 1984: At Black Range (12 min.)**
    • 1984: Waterfall (18 min.)**
    • 1984: This Life's Body (147 min.)
    • 1984: Rainbow Diary (17 min.) [with Ivor Cantrill]
    • 1986: Notes on Berlin, the Divided City (30 min.)
    • 1987: Walking Track (20 min.)
    • 1987: The Berlin Apartment (120 min.)*** [new version produced in 1992]
    • 1988: Myself When Fourteen (19 min.) [with Ivor Cantrill]

  • 1990s:

    • 1990: Bali Film (32 min.)
    • 1991: Agung Gives Ivor a Haircut (4 min., 30 sec.)
    • 1992: Days in Ubud (31 min.)
    • 1992: The Bemused Tourist, from Bogor to Bandung (23 min.)
    • 1993: View From the Balcony of the Marco Polo Hotel (4 min.) (rev. 1993)
    • 1993: Rendra's Place, Depok (8 min.)
    • 1993: Walking to Yeh Pelu (10 min.)
    • 1993: The Pause Between Frames (4 min.)
    • 1993: In the Shadow of Gunung Batur (8 min.)
    • 1993: Ming-Wei to Singaraja (7 min., 30 sec.)
    • 1994: Ivor's Tiger Xmas Card (7 min., 18 sec.)
    • 1995: Ivor's Exhibition (15 min.)
    • 1995: Ramayana/Legong (5 min., 36 sec.)
    • 1995: Jalan Raya, Ubud (15 min.)
    • 1995: Early Morning at Borobudur (20 min.)
    • 1995: Decadal (8 min.)
    • 1995: Ivor Paints (79 min.)
    • 1996: Petunias (3 min., 52 sec.)
    • 1996: Articulated Image (3 min., 22 sec.)
    • 1996: Light Shards (3 min., 30 sec.)
    • 1996: Tidal River (38 min.)
    • 1997: Airey's Inlet (6 min.)
    • 1997: F.N.Q. Night (4 min.)
    • 1997: Floriana on the Esplanade (7 min.)
    • 1997: Ivor's Xmas Card 1997 (3 min.)
    • 1997: Illuminations of the Mundane: Winter (21 min.)
    • 1998: Illuminations of the Mundane: Spring (12 min.)
    • 1998: Illuminations of the Mundane: Late Light (12 min.)
    • 1998: Nimnims in the Garden Xmas Card (6 min.)
    • 1998: Ivor's Ceramic Exhibition (5 min.)
    • 1998: Cairns (8 min., 44 sec.)
    • 1998: Garden of Chromatic Disturbance (13 min.)**
    • 1998: Ivor Paints Arf Arf (5 min., 28 sec.)**
    • 1998: The City of Chromatic Dissolution (21 min., 35 sec.)**
    • 1999: The City of Chromatic Intensity (5 min.)**
    • 1999: The Becak Driver - Superimposed (20 min.)***

    2000s:

    • 2000: The Land is Not Empty (26 min.)
    • 2001: Light Shards (6 min.) [2nd version]
    • 2001: Capricornia (20 min.)
    • 2001: Floriana on the Esplanade (8 min.)
    • 2001: Folded Sandstone (16 min.)
    • 2006: The Room of Chromatic Mystery (7 min.) *

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