Two frames from 'Waterfall' (© A. & C. Cantrill 1984)
ARTHUR CANTRILL AND CORINNE CANTRILL - FILMOGRAPHY (16mm unless otherwise
noted)
Throughout over a quarter of a century of work, the concerns and films of Australian filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill have remained consistent. Their approach to filmmaking is both trenchant and resolute. Their concerns converge around experience, both their own and that of the spectator, as they relentlessly explore the subjective experience of perception, process, and time. Their practice is firmly rooted in the body, the material. Theirs truly could be said to be a cinema of the senses, a cinema of the body. The color separation films, the image analysis films, the landscape films, the multi-screen and film/performance works, all reflect a lived body.
---from 'Cinema of the Senses: Selected Films of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill' by Barry Kapke (Cinematograph Volume 3, page 23, San Francisco, 1988)
Films made between 1960-1963:
A series of silent, scripted, 10-13 min., B&W children's art and craft films made for ABC TV (who added the sound): Glove Puppets 1: Making heads (Camera: Morgan Jones), Glove Puppets 2: Painting Heads and Dressing (Camera: Morgan Jones), Glove Puppets 3: Scenery and Production (Camera: Morgan Jones), Shadow Play (Camera: Morgan Jones), Bottles into Dolls (Camera: Morgan Jones), Henny Penny Comes to Life, Looking at Insects, Looking at Leaves, Looking at Trees, Making Window Pictures, Metal Collage. A series of 10, 10 min. episodes with shadow puppets made for ABC TV: The Odyssey. A series of 13, 12 min. episodes made for ABC TV: Kip and David ; Zoo, 30 min. Several 5 min. silent
`interludes' made for ABC TV, e.g. Tower of Blocks, Feeding the
Ducks, Pebbles etc. A Series of four 6 min. studies of native
flora: Banksia Serrata, Banksia Integrifolia, Pandanus
Pedunculatus, Casuarina Equisetifolia.
Films made from 1963:
Mud, 4 min. 1963
Galaxy, 4 min. 1963
Nebulae, 4 min. 1963
Kinegraffiti, 4 min. 1963
Robert Klippel Sculpture Studies, 5 films, each 5 min. 1964-1965
Robert Klippel Drawings, 1947-1963, 25 min. 1965
The Incised Image, 25 min. 1966
Dream, 4 min. 1966
Adventure Playground, London, 6 min. 1966
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 30 min. 1968
Red Stone Dancer, 6 min. 1968
Moving Statics, 28 min. 1969
Rehearsal at the Arts Laboratory, 4 min. 1969
Imprints, 4 min. 1969
Fud 69, 6 min. 1969
Home Movie - A Day in the Bush, 4 min. 1969
Eikon, 3 1/2 min. 1969
White-Orange-Green, 4 min. 1969
Bouddi, 8 min. 1970
4000 Frames, An Eye-Opener Film, 3 min. 1970
Earth Message, 23 min. 1970
Harry Hooton, 83 min. 1970
New Movements Generate New Thoughts, 11 min. 1971
The Boiling Electric Jug Film, 8 min. 1971
Blast, 6 min. 1971
Meditations, 6 min. 1971
Nine Image Film, 3 min. 1971
Milky Way Special, 3 min. 1971
Zap, 2 min. 1971
Video Self-Portrait, 6 min. 1971
Gold Fugue, 3 min. 1971*
Pink Metronome, 3 min. 1971*
Room, 5 min. 1971*
The City, 8 min. 1971*
Fragments, 13 min. 1971*
Island Fuse, 11 min. 1971
Skin of Your Eye, 117 min. 1973
At Eltham, 24 min. 1974
Reflections on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901, 17 min. 1974
Negative/Positive on Three Images by Baldwin Spencer, 1901, 10 min.
1974
Studies in Image (De)Generation Nos. 1, 2 & 3, each 10 min. 1975
Three Colour Separation Studies - Landscapes, 13 min. 1976**
Three Colour Separation Studies - Still Lifes, 13 min. 1976**
Simple Observations of a Solar Eclipse, 16 min. 1976
Touching the Earth Series:
1--Ocean at Point Lookout, 46 min. 1977
2--Near Coober Pedy, 15 min. 1977
3--At Uluru, 80 min. 1977
4--Katatjuta, 24 min. 1977
Moving Picture Postcards, 16 min. 1978**
Heat Shimmer, 13 min. 1978**
Hillside at Chauritchi, 6 min. 1978
Near Wilmington, 6 min. 1978
Meteor Crater, Gosse Bluff, 6 min. 1978*
Ocean, 15 min. 1978*
Interior/Exterior, 3 min. 1978***
Angophora and Sandstone, 15 min. 1979**
Coast at Pearl Beach, 11 min. 1979**
Notes on the Passage of Time, 14 min. 1979**
Grain of the Voice Series:
1--Rock Wallaby and Blackbird, 66 min. 1980
2--Two Women, 32 min. 1980
3--Seven Sisters, 19 min. 1980
Unthurqua, 6 min. 1980
Warrah, 15 min. 1980**
Experiments in Three-Colour Separation, 21 min. 1980**
Two-Colour Separation Studies, 16 min. 1980
Pan/Colour Separations, 11 min. 1980**
The Second Journey (To Uluru), 74 min. 1981
Wilpena, 23 min. 1981
Time/Colour Separations, 18 min. 1981**
Floterian - Hand Printings From a Film History, 12 min. 35mm and 16mm,
1981
Film of Circles, Squares, Triangles, Lines and Dots, 11 min. 1981 (with Ivor Cantrill)
Corporeal, 18 min. 1983***
Passage, 65 min. 1983***
At Black Range, 12 min. 1984**
Waterfall, 18 min. 1984**
In This Life's Body, 147 min. 1984
Rainbow Diary, 17 min. 1984 (with Ivor Cantrill)
Notes on Berlin, the Divided City, 30 min. Super 8mm, (16mm enlargement) 1986
Walking Track, 20 min. Super 8mm, 1987
The Berlin Apartment, 120 min. 1987*** (new version 1992)
Myself When Fourteen, 19 min. 1989 (with Ivor Cantrill)
Bali Film, 32 min. super 8mm, 1990
Agung Gives Ivor a Haircut, 4 1/2 min. Super 8mm, 1991
The Bemused Tourist, from Bogor to Bandung, 23 min, Super 8mm, 1992
View From the Balcony of the Marco Polo Hotel, 4 min, Super 8mm, 1992/
rev. 1993
Rendra's Place, Depok, 8 min. , Super 8mm, 1992
Days in Ubud, 31 mins, Super 8mm, (16mm enlargement) 1992
Walking to Yeh Pelu, 10 min., Super 8mm, 1993
The Pause Between Frames, 4 min., Super 8mm, (16mm enlargement) 1993
In the Shadow of Gunung Batur, 8 min., Super 8mm, 1993
Ming-Wei to Singaraja, 7 1/2 min, Super 8mm, 1993
Ivor's Tiger Xmas Card, 7 min., 18 secs, Super 8mm, 1994
Ivor's Exhibition, 15 min., Super 8mm, 1995
Ramayana/Legong, 5 mins 36 secs, Super 8mm, (16mm enlargement) 1995
Jalan Raya, Ubud, 15 min., Super 8mm, (16mm enlargement) 1995
Early Morning at Borobudur, 20 min., Super 8mm, 1995
Ivor Paints, 78 min., Super 8mm, 1995
Petunias, 4 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1996
Articulated Image, 4 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1996
Tidal River 38 min., Super 8mm, 1996
Airey's Inlet, 6 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1997
F.N.Q. Night, 4 min., Super 8mm, 1997
Floriana on the Esplanade, 6 min. (16mm enlargement), 1997
Ivor's Xmas Card 1997, 3 min., Super 8mm, 1997
Illuminations of the Mundane - Winter, 21 min., Super 8mm, 1997
Illuminations of the Mundane - Spring , 12 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1998
Illuminations of the Mundane - Late Light, 12 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1998
Nimnims in the Garden Xmas Card, 6 min., Super 8mm, 1998
Ivor's Ceramic Exhibition, 5 min., Super 8mm, 1998
Cairns, 8 min. 44 sec., Super 8mm, 1998
Garden of Chromatic Disturbance,** 13 min., 1998
Ivor Paints Arf Arf,** 5 min., 1998
The City of Chromatic Dissolution,** 21 min. 30, 1998
The City of Chromatic Intensity, ** 5 min., 1999
The Becak Driver - Superimposed, *** 20 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 1999
The Land is Not Empty, 26 min., 2000
Light Shards, 6 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 2001
Capricornia, 20 min., 2001
Floriana on the Esplanade, 8 min., Super 8mm (16mm enlargement), 2001
Folded Sandstone, 16 min., 2001
The Room of Chromatic Mystery, ** 7 min., 2006
*: 3-screen film
**: 3-colour separation film
***: 2-screen film
Film/Performance Works
'The Cantrills are simultaneously dreamers, historians, artists of modernity, characters, readers and auteurs who have transformed their observations into filmic poems.' --Anna Dzenis writing on The Bemused Tourist, RealTime 23, February-March, 1998, page 24.
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 Arthur 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
Cantrill 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 the Voice 1980 (Films made with Pitjantjatjara song men and
women with live commentary and by Corinne Cantrill; installation of sand,
trees, Aboriginal artifacts; film stills.)
The Practice of Filmmaking 1981 (2-screen - 16mm and Super 8 - film based on the production of the Cantrill film The Second Journey (to Uluru) with live commentary and action by C. Cantrill; installation of sand, trees, tent etc.)
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 , 120 minutes (Autobiographical film with
live and recorded commentary and action by Corinne Cantrill, installation of
photographs, flowers, garments.)
The Berlin Apartment 1986, 135 minutes (new version 1995) (2-screen
film of filmmakers living in a Berlin apartment with live commentary and action
by Corinne Cantrill reflecting on the apartment's inhabitants during World War
2, installation of furnishings, pot plants, posters.)
Projected Light 1988, 120 minutes (2-screen film and slides about
filmmakers' house and early and pre-film history, especially during 1888, the
year the house was built. Live and recorded commentary by A. and C. Cantrill,
on cinema as an art of projected light.)
The Bemused Tourist 1997, 2 hours (3-screen and installation of batiks etc. using Super 8 film shot in Bali and Java, with recorded music and effects and live commentary.)
The Becak Driver - A Story from Yogyakarta 1998, 2 hours (2-screen Super 8 and 16mm film and slides and installation of batiks etc., with recorded music and effects and live commentary.)
FILM AWARDS:
Australian Film Institute Special Award (special mention for music) for Robert Klippel - Junk Sculpture, 1964, 1966.
Australian Film Institute Silver Award (Experimental Category) for Earth Message 1970. ('A colour symphony in three movements, this entry scores both for the detailed care of its flora photography and for the skill in which colour overlays have been mixed without distortion and with considerable aesthetic advantage.')
Australian Film Institute: The Alan Stout Award for the most creative entries in 1970 for Earth Message, 1970.
Melbourne Film Festival, Diploma of Merit for Warrah, 1981.
St. Kilda Film Festival: Special Lord Mayor's Award to Ivor Cantrill for Rainbow Diary, 1987.
St. Kilda Film Festival: Second Prize awarded to Corinne Cantrill for In This Life's Body, 1986.
Media City 14, an international festival of experimental film and video art, Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Honourable Mention for The Room of Chromatic Mystery, 2008.