Arthur Cantrill Movies

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...

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...

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

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

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

16mm, colour reversal print

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...

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...

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....