Corinne Cantrill Corinne Cantrill i(A79569 works by) (a.k.a. Corinne Mozelle Cantrill)
Born: Established: 1928 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Filmmaker Corinne Cantrill, and her husband Arthur, have made more than eighty avant-garde films, many of them quite provocative. They began their professional union in 1963 with a series of independent films on child arts and crafts for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC-TV). In 1969, the couple travelled to London on a two-year fellowship from the Australian National University and, while in England, acquired a body of avant-garde films for the National Library. After returning to Australia, the Cantrills undertook a series of lecture and screening tours to promote an appreciation of avant-garde film. For these exhibitions, they showed their multi-projection and film-performance work.

Much of the Cantrills's enormous output of work (more than 140 films and film-performance works) explores the process of filming and the audience perception of visuals, with a particular fixation upon the use of landscape to create a national identity. The films vary in length from two minutes for Zap (1971) to 148 minutes for In This Life's Body (1984).

Their film work and publishing is well known internationally. They are represented in several film collections including those of The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (Berlin), Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), New York Museum of Modern Art, PRÉA (Avignon), The British Council, and the National Library of Australia. Their films have been shown at the Centre Pompidou and The Louvre (Paris) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York), as well as other art museums and film festivals. Between 1971 and 2000, the Cantrills also edited and published Cantrills' Filmnotes, a journal on film and video art.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • The Melbourne Independent Filmmakers website includes:

    • Cantrills' Biography
    • Critical Overview
    • Filmography
    • Select Bibliography
    • Cantrills' Filmnotes (publication summary)
  • The Arthur and Corinne Cantrill website includes an index to every edition of Cantrill's Filmnotes - Nos 1 to 93-100. The site also includes:

    • Cantrills' Biography
    • Critical Overview
    • Filmography
    • Extensive Bibliography
    • Awards

Personal Awards

2011 Order of Australia Member of the Order of Australia (AM) For service to the visual arts as a documentary and experimental film maker, and to education in the creative arts field, particularly surrealism and avant-garde cinema.
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