Publishing History: It was edited and published between 1971 and 2000 by filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill in Melbourne, Australia (although some issues were edited in the USA in 1973-'75 and Germany in 1985 while the editors were living there.) The final issue is octuple issue #93-100. Past issues have covered activity in Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A., Canada, Japan, The Philippines, Indonesia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and England.
Arthur Cantrill retired in Dec.1996 as Associate Professor of Media Arts, and is now a Senior Associate at School of Creative Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
Editorial policy: To document innovative work in Super-8 and 16mm film, animation, video, digital art, installation, sound and performance art.
Articles are in the form of writing by the artists discussing their work, interviews, and critical writing (in that order of frequency), with much visual material, in the case of films, mainly frame enlargements. Books reviews are included in each issue.
Physical dimensions: The magazine is 'landscape' format: 270 mm x 210 mm, 72 pages, well-printed, with 8 pages in colour. There is no advertising.
Back Issues: All back issues are still available.
Index: Also available is a 128 page INDEX TO CANTRILLS FILMNOTES, covering issues #1 to #51/52. It has entries under Contributors, Film and Video Titles, Names and Subjects. There is also a summary of the contents of issues #1 to #51/52.
JUST PUBLISHED: a 52 page INDEX TO CANTRILLS FILMNOTES, Issues #53/54 to #93-100, which complements the above Index. Available from the address below.
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The publication of Cantrills Filmnotes was assisted by the Australian Film Commission from issue #45/46, Oct. 1984 until issue #91/92, Dec. 1998.
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Contents of latest issue:#93-100 December1999/January 2000:
* EDITORIAL
* ON A PLANET NOT FAR FROM EARTH, Heinz Boeck writes on his filmmaking
* PANIC BODIES: an interview with Mike Hoolboom, by Larissa Fan
* JACK ELLITT: The Early Years, by Roger Horrocks
* EMANANCE (1 and 2): Synthetic Colour and Mystical Illusion: Craig Lindley's new films
* INTERVIEW WITH MONIKA FUNKE-STERN
* THEATRE OF HELL, Maj Green and Ewan Cameron discuss their recent performances
* CHRISTOS LINOU: SCREENING METAPHORS the filmmaker writes about his work
* THE KNIFE OF LIGHT - Surrealist films and violence to the eye, by Arthur Cantrill
* NEW BOOKS Š book reviews by Arthur Cantrill and Terry Leahy
* THE SURFACE: progress down the gutter, Marcus BergnerÕs new film
* HUNTING, SHOOTING and GATHERING, Janet Merewether writes about her video Cheap Blonde
* A PLAY OF ENERGIES, Michael Lee writes on his abstract motion pictures
* NERVOUS_OBJECTS - A REMOTE COLLUSION, by Sue Bisset
* TERRA INCOGNITA: FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGIES FOR A DIGITAL WORLD, by John Harrison
* OUT OF GAMUT: THE EXTREMITIES OF COLOUR, by Arthur & Corinne Cantrill
Books received since last issue was published:
Len Lye: a Biography, by Roger Horrocks. Auckland University Press, 2001, 436 pages, softcover, $NZ 49.95. A highly recommended study of the life, art (painting, film and kinetic sculpture) and theory of Len Lye. More on http://www.auckland.ac.nz/aup
Pix 3 Editor/Designer/Publisher: Ilona Halberstadt, London, 2001. Supported and distributed by the British Film Institute. 192 pages, softcover. Articles include David Curtis on light in experimental filmmaking; Peter Wollen on Burroughs films; several articles on post-revolutionary Soviet avant-gardes, inter alia.
Two books from University Press of Mississippee, 2001, edited by Peter Brunette: Stanley Kubrik Interviews,and Oliver Stone Interviews, each 207 pages, softcover, $US18.00.
Australian Film 1900-1977, by Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Oxford University Press, paperback edition, $AUD29.50. Available from Ronin Films, PO Box 1005, Civic Square ACT 2608, Australia (add $AUD8.00 postage and packing per copy within Australia).
Hollywood Spectatorship - Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences, edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby. BFI Publishing, London, 2001, 168 pages, softcover, £15.99.
The Fright of Real Tears - Kryzsztof Kieslowski between Theory and Post-Theory, by Slavoj Zizek. BFI Publishing, London, 2001, 213 pages, softcover, £15.99.
Art and Complexity, edited by J. Casti & A. Karlqvist. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2003, 170 pages, hardcover, $US 47.
Ten books from Indiana University Press, Bloomington, (www.iupress.indiana.edu):
Liberated Cinema - The Yugoslav Experience 1945-2001, by Daniel J. Golding. 2003, 224 pages, softcover, $US19.95; hardcover, $US49.94.
The Films of Jack Chambers, edited by Kathryn Elder. 2002, 240 pages, softcover, $US22.95.
Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste, edited by Peter Harcourt. 2002, 104 pages, softcover, $US9.95.
Allan King: Filmmaker, by Seth Feldman. 2002, 148 pages, softcover, $US12.95.
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939, by Colin Crisp. 2002, 488 pages, softcover, $US29.95.
Toward Cinema and Its Double, by Laleen Jayamanne. 2001, 335 pages, softcover, $US22.95; hardcover, $US49.95.
The Sounds of Early Cinema, edited by Richard Abel & Rick Altman. Papers given at the 1998 Domitor Conference, English and French language. 2001, 327 pages, softcover, $US22.95; hardcover, $US49.95.
Introduction to Documentary, by Bill Nicholls. 2001, 223 pages, softcover, $US17.95; Hardcover, $US39.95.
John Ford Made Westerns, edited by Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein. 2001, 324 pages, softcover, $US19.95.
The Analysis of Film, essays by Raymond Bellour on classic Hollywood film. 2001, 328 pages, softcover, $US19.95; hardcover, $US49.95.
Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943, edited by Jacqueline Reich and Piero Garofalo. 2002, 368 pages, softcover, $US22.95; hardcover, $US49.95.
Art and Complexity edited by J. Casti & A. Karlquist. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2003, 169 pages, hardcover,
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Contents of Cantrills Filmnotes, issue #1 to #93-100