Arthur Cantrill Movies

An experimental work about the Australian forests by Arthur and 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,...

Does colour exist where there is no light? The garden is a setting for colour research: random objects are laid out in changing combinations for...

3-colour separation film.

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...

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.

At Black Range (1984) was shot near the Grampians in Western Victoria, and features monumental monochrome rocks with rainbow shadows and...

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

"On several occasions we were impressed by the apparent vitality of some spools with arbitrary discards, compared to the laboriously assembled...

As the camera moves gently from afar into the very heart of the monolith, the magic of the holiest site of the Aborigines unfolds in shimmering...

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

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

Experimental Super 8 film from 2001 by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

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.

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

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...

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...

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...