Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

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Arthur and Corinne

Cantrill

Experimental film

The Cantrills might be said to have invented Expanded Cinema (at least in Australia) – in which the production and particularly the projection of films is not seen as a single screen form but one in which all kinds of things, from manipulation of the colour during the processing of the film to the use of several projectors and screens, coupled with performance, poetry, music and the stage are take as the medium in which the visual information can be supported and displayed.

Author

Stephen Jones; based on materials drawn from Cantrills Film Notes and various web interviews

Period of activity

from 1964

Group

Website

Artist Website

Other works

Filmography (16mm unless otherwise noted)

FILM MADE BETWEEN 1960-1963

A series of children's art and craft films made for ABC TV; The Odyssey: series of 10, 10 min, episodes with shadow puppets; Kip and David: series of 13, 12 min episodes; Zoo, 30 min. Several 5 min. silent 'interludes' made for ABC TV, eg Tower of Blocks, Feeding the Ducks, Pebbles etc. A Sereis of four 6 min. studies of native flora: Banksia Serrata, Banksia Integrifolia, Pandanus Pedunculatus, Casuarina Equisetifolia.

Mud, 4 mins, 1963

Galaxy, 4 mins, 1963

Nebulae, 4 mins, 1963

Kinegraffiti, 4 mins, 1963

Robert Klippel Sculpture Studies, 5 films, each 5 mins, 1964-1965

Robert Klippel Drawings: 1947-1963, 25 mins, 1965

The Incised Image, 25 mins, 1966

Dream, 4 mins, 1966

Adventure Playground, London, 6 mins, 1966

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 30 mins, 1968

Red Stone Dancer, 6 mins, 1968

Moving Statics, 28 mins, 1965

Rehearsal at the Arts Laboratory, 4 mins, 1969

Imprints, 4 mins, 1969

Fud 69, 6 mins, 1969

Home Movie - A Day in the Bush, 4 mins, 1969

Eikon, 3 1/2 mins, 1969

White-Orange-Green, 4 mins, 1969

Bouddi, 8 mins, 1970

4000 Frames, An Eye-Opener Film, 3 mins, 1970

Earth Message, 23 mins, 1970

Harry Hooton, 83 mins, 1970

New Movements Generate New Thoughts, 11 mins, 1971

The Boiling Electric Jug Film, 8 mins, 1971

Blast, 6 mins, 1971

Meditations, 6 mins, 1971

Nine Image Film, 3 mins, 1971

Zap, 2 mins, 1971

Video Self-Portrait, 6 mins, 1971

Gold Fugue, 3 mins, 1971*

Pink Metronome, 3 mins, 1971*

Room, 5 mins, 1971*

The City, 8 mins, 1971*

Fragments, 13 mins, 1971*

Island Fuse, 11 mins, 1971

Skin of Your Eye, 117 mins, 1973

At Eltham, 24 mins, 1974

Reflections on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901, 17 mins, 1974

Negative/Positive on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901, 10 mins, 1975

Three Colour Separation Studies - Landscapes, 13 mins, 1976**

Three COlour Separation Studies - Still Lifes, 13 mins, 1976**

Simple Observations of a Solar Eclipse, 16 mins, 1976

Touching the Earth series:

1 - Ocean at Point Lookout, 46 mins, 1977

2 - Near Coober Pedy, 15 mins, 1977

3 - At Uluru, 80 mins, 1977

3 - Katatjuta, 24 mins, 1977

Moving Picture Postcards, 16 mins, 1978**

Heat Shimmer, 13 mins, 197888

Hillside at Chauritchi, 6 mins, 1978

Near Wilmington, 6 mins, 1978

Meteor Crater, Grosse Bluff, 6 mins, 1978*

Ocean, 15 mins, 1978*

Interior/Exterior, 3 mins, 1978**

Printer Light Play, 6 mins, 1978

Angophora and Sandstone, 15 mins, 1979**

Coast at Pearl Beach, 11 mins, 1979*

Notes on the Passage of Time, 14 mins, 1979**

Grain of the Voice Series:

1 - Rock Wallaby and Blackbird, 66 mins, 1980

2 - Two Women, 32 mins, 1980

3 - Seven Sisters, 19 mins, 1980

Unthurqua, 6 mins, 1980

Warrah, 15 mins, 1980**

Experiments in Three-Colour Separation, 21 mins, 1980**

Two-Colour Separation Studies, 16 mins, 1980

Pan/Colour Separations, 11 mins, 1980*

The Second Journey (To Uluru), 74 mins, 1981

Wilpena, 23 mins, 1981

Time/Colour Separations, 18 mins, 1981**

Floterian - Hand Printings From a Film History, 12 mins, 35mm and 16mm, 1981

Corporeal, 18 mins, 1983***

Passage, 65 mins, 1983***

At Black Range, 12 mins, 1984

Waterfall, 18 mins, 1984**

In This Life's Body, 147 mins, 1984

Notes on Berlin, the Divided City, 30 mins, Super 8mm, 1986

Walking Track, 20 mins, Super 8mm, 1987

The Berlin Apartment, 120 mins, 1987*** (new version 1992)

Myself When Fourteen, 19 mins, 1989 (with Ivor Cantrill)

Ball Film, 32 mins, Super 8mm, 1990

Agung Gives Ivor a Haircut, 4:30 mins, Super 8mm, 1991

The Bemused Tourist, from Bogor to Bandung, 23 mins, Super 8mm, 1992

View From the Balcony of the Mrco Polo Hotel, 4 mins, Super 8mm, 1992/ rev.1993

Rendra's Place, Depok, 8 mins, Super 8mm, 1992

Walking to Yeh Pelu, 10 mins, Super 8mm, 1993

The Pause Between Frames, 4 mins, Super 8mm, 1993

In the Shadow of Gunung Batur, 8 mins, Super 8mm, 1993

Ming-Wie to Singaraja, 7:30 mins, Super 8mm, 1993

Ivor's Tiger Xmas Card, 7:18 mins, Super 8mm, 1994

Ivor's Exhibition, 15 mins, Super 8mm, 1995

Ramayana/Legong, 5 mins, Super 8mm, 1995

Jalan Raya, Ubud, 15 mins, Super 8mm, 1995

Early Morning at Borobudur, 20 mins, Super 8mm, 1995

* 3-screen film

** 3-colour separation film

*** 2-screen film

FILM/PERFORMANCE WORKS

Expanded Cinema 1970-1972 (Included multiscreen, projection onto patterned and 3-D screens, and onto burning screens and screens of water. Also included following two works.)

Calligraphy Contest for the New Year 1971 (Hand-painted film projected anamorphically onto black screen progressively painted white and cut into patterns by Aurthur Cantrill.)

Concert for Electric Jugs 1971 (Film of boiling electric jug projected onto four boiling electric jugs.)

Edges of Meaning 1977 (Film images by Walter Baldwin Spencer on two screens at right angles, installation of Spencer frame enlargements, Corinne Catrill reading from Spencer's writing.)

Fields of Vision 1978 (3-screen projection of extracts from Cantrill landscape films, with commentary live and recorded by A. & C. Cantrill, installation of film stills.)

Grain of Voice 1980 (Films made with Pitjantjatjara song men and women with live commentary and action by C. and A. Cantrill; installation of sand, trees, Aboriginal artifacts; film stills.)

Passage 1983 (2-screen film of journey from Melbourne to Central Australia with live and recorded commentary and action by C. and A. Cantrill; installation of sand, trees, tent, garments, camera; film stills.)

Journey Through a Face 1984 (Autobiographical film with live and recorded commentary and action by Corinne Cantrill, installation of photographs, flowers, garments.)

The Berlin Apartment 1986 (new version 1992) (2-screen film of filmmakers living in a Berlin apartment with live commentary and action by Corinne Cantrill, installation of furnishings, flowers.)

Projected Light 1988 (2-screen and alides of film about filmmakers house and film history and live and recorded commentary by A. and C. Cantrill, on cinema as art of projected light.)

Melbourne

VIC

Australia

Expanded cinema

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill