Cinematography: Arthur Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are two of Australia’s most prominent experimental filmmakers. The Cantrills are well known for their ‘colour separation’ films. To create these works they shoot a scene...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot "Island Fuse consists entirely of the monochromatic reprocessing of black and white footage that we filmed in the 1960s on the Isle of Stradbroke. Using an analysis projector, Island Fuse...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot 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 type.

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot 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 figures in old...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot 16mm, colour reversal print

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

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

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot “In Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3, 1963 (1965), a spiky Klippel creation resonates almost visibly with the high, piercing tones of Larry Sitsky’s music. (Here the “voice” belongs...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which are echoed in birdsong and the buzzing of insects.

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot 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 repeated shooting and printing with...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot 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 nuances of light. Shot...

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

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

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Cast Sharman Mellick · George Shevtsov · Will Spoor · John Van Dreelen

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot A camera calligraphy of the coastal bush – celebrating growth, summer light, rock and plant textures.

Direction Arthur Cantrill · Corinne Cantrill

Plot The beauty of the Australian bush is depicted in a carefully composed camera choreography of different aspects of flora and fauna. Close-up and panorama shots and Aboriginal music meld into...