Arthur Cantrill Movies

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

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....

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...

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large...

The footage for this film was shot in London during our research into the Vorticist movement. It is a montage of images from the Vorticist magazine...

A study of the desert plain that is not left out of foliage or geological structures, inviting us to compare it with the plain of the sea and the...

Each screen shows exposure variations in a room with a seated figure, the sunlit bush seen through large windows, its tonality altering with the...

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.

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...

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...

Three-color separation imagery expands the experimental documentation of landscape. Alternating nuances of color conjure up; a formal beauty, which...

3-colour separation film.

One of the main “mysteries” of working with the lab involves grading the print: adjusting or “correcting” the color balance...

It was made quickly, in a student-style way, to be shown at a student drama festival. In the main sequence, we continue to explore the nature of...

Made from image fragments from Will Spoor's footage, it was our first direct foray into the relationship between cinema and visual perception. It has...

It was filmed from photographs of a rehearsal by Will Spoor of a Tardieu work at the Arts Laboratory, Drury Lane. The photos were taken before...

Charles Lloyd is an Australian artist whom we met in Sydney. He began working with printmaking when he moved to London around 1960. The film...

Super8 bi-packed onto 16mm with recurring patterns and combinations of superimpositions. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Single frame glimpses of life in Ubud, Bali, to Kecak Music. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Located 18 miles west, Katatjuta (The Olgas) is a recurring presence in the background of Uluru. Believed by Aboriginal people to have been inhabited...