Corinne Cantrill

The Room of Chromatic Mystery (2006)

'The Room of Chromatic Mystery' is (...) another three-colour separation film, shot in the living room of the Cantrills' old house in Brunswick. An ordinary domestic scene, with flowers and carved artifacts on a table by the window; but the borderlines of ...

Light Shards (2001)

Experimental Super 8 film from 2001 by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill ...

The City of Chromatic Dissolution (1999)

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 three separate times on black and white film stock, using ...

Garden of Chromatic Disturbance (1998)

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 varying exposure densities and colour balances. Images of Corinne standing ...

Articulated Image (1996)

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill ...

Myself When Fourteen (1989)

Brightly coloured animated drawings rotoscoped from high contrast black and white negative film of Ivor Cantrill aged 14, are integrated with the original negative and positive images on an optical printer to create patterns of black, white and colour. The ...

Rainbow Diary (1984)

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. Drawing style ranges from bold geometric patterns, to a delicate calligraphy. ...

In This Life's Body (1984)

Filmmaker Corinne Cantrill traces her fascinating life story through hundreds of photographs. Formally rigorous and emotionally profound, Corinne's insightful narration explores how photographs both reveal and hide our identity. ...

Waterfall (1984)

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

Corporeal (1983)

An experimental work about the Australian forests by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. ...

The Second Journey (To Uluru) (1981)

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 at different times of day, the close-up and panorama shots of this more than 500-million ...

Floterian – Hand Printings From a Film History (1981)

Sequences from the filmmakers' 16mm, Super 8 and Stand 8 mm work, dating from 1960 onwards, are contact-printed onto 35mm film, then reduced to 16mm for projection. The relationship of the frame sizes of the smaller gauges to that of the 35mm causes a flut ...

Experiments in Three-Colour Separation (1980)

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 photography. ...

Warrah (1980)

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. ...

Notes on the Passage of Time (1979)

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 summer day. With the sea in the background, the moving objects such as the pedestrians, cyclists, traffic are ...

Heat Shimmer (1978)

3-colour separation film. ...

At Uluru (1977)

Ayers Rock is examined in the light of its ancient human and animal associations. It is seen under various light effects which create different colour and texture impressions. The timelessness of the monolith is suggested by negative colour, the result of ...

Ocean at Point Lookout (1977)

16mm, colour reversal print ...

Two Women (1976)

TWO WOMEN records our passage through the tribal lands of the Central Australian region – a personal charting of this mythical landscape. The film is shaped by an unedited recording made of a Pitjantjatjara women's song cycle: "Two Women", which describe ...

Studies in Image (de) Generation (1975)

"These three films are derived from "Negative / Positive on Three Images" by Baldwin Spencer, which was copied in high-contrast material to make Study No. 1. This, in turn, was copied into the same material to make Study No. 2 serially. . Then Study No 2 w ...

At Eltham, a Metaphor on Death (1974)

Corinne Cantrill's film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instrument. In an essay, Corinne notes she subtitled the film 'A Metaphor on Death ...

Skin of Your Eye (1973)

Masses, crowds in the streets, traffic, large gatherings of people for political, religious, cultural events; TV newscasts – the tide of humanity being the matrix from which the alternative movement arose. From these masses emerge individuals: friends an ...

Video Self-Portrait (1971)

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

Island Fuse (1971)

"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 is a film that focuses on the interaction of the elements that produ ...

4000 Frames, An Eye-Opener Film (1970)

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. ...

Earth Message (1970)

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 a meditative view of the energy and harmony that shape the place. ...

Harry Hooton (1970)

The film Harry Hooton is conceived as a huge energy field combining the energy of light and colour, movement, editing and sound — a dense, vibrating, pulsating work, unrelenting in its thrust; a celebration of Hooton's definition of art as the communicat ...

Bouddi (1970)

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

Eikon (1969)

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 icons. ...

Red Stone Dancer (1968)

"On several occasions we were impressed by the apparent vitality of some spools with arbitrary discards, compared to the laboriously assembled sequences of what is waste. Based on this idea, the cinema is a reel of clips from the Red Stone Dancer scene in ...

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1968)

This is a film about the work of the young French Vorticist sculptor who died in World War I and his ties to London and to Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Much of the commentary comes from Gaudier's letters, his manifestos, and other writings ...

Dream (1966)

A short animation of Charles Lloyd's dry points. Sound composition by Arthur Cantrill. ...

Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3 (1963)

"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 to a harpsichord; another film in the same series creates a similar ...

Kinegraffiti (1963)

Experimental film using fireworks, often superimposed and in soft focus, printed in negative form with a black image on a white background. Plucked piano strings reversed xylophone and cymbal with an electronic vibrato effect form the background sound effe ...

Pandanus Pedunculatus (1963)

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 Pedunculatus. ...

The Native Trees of Stradbroke Island (1963)

The Native Trees of Stradbroke Island (1964), consisting of four films: Banksia Integrifolia, Casuarina Equisetifolia, Pandanus Pedunculatus and Banksia Serrata (each 6 min, b & w). Music: Nancy Tow. "Born out of our interest in the environment, based on ...

Banksia Serrata (1963)

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. ...

Making Window Pictures (1960)

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large transparent pictures with black paper, coloured cellophane, and other materials such as discarded x-ray pictu ...

Une journée avec les Cantrill (1985)

The Second Journey (To Uluru) (1981)

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 at different times of day, the close-up and panorama shots of this more than 500-million ...