
At Eltham, a Metaphor on Death
1974
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Arthur Cantrill, AM (born 1938) and Corinne Mozelle Cantrill, AM (6 November 1928 – 18 February 2025) were Australian filmmakers, academics, composers and authors based in Castlemaine, Victoria. They have worked in children's educational film, experimental 16mm shorts, multiple projection films, feature length experimental film, kinetic film and performance film, which they labelled 'expanded cinema'. They edited and published 100 issues of the experimental film journal Cantrills Filmnotes between 1971 and 2000. The Cantrills' films have been exhibited and featured at the Centre Pompidou, The Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia Berlin Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Melbourne Super 8 Festival, Brisbane International Film Festival, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival. BBC Television 1 featured one of their short films during their residence in London in the late 1960s. Their work in children's educational film were broadcast on ABC Television between 1960 and 1963. Arthur Cantrill was Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne until his retirement in 1996. Their 1970 biographical film, Harry Hooton, focused on Australian anarchist, Wobbly and member of the Sydney Push. Corinne Cantrill's 1984 autobiographical film In this life's body was named by Greek-Australian film-maker Bill Mousoulis as one of the fifty greatest independent films in Australian history. In 2010, Melbourne based Shame File Music released a compilation of Arthur Cantrill's compositions, titled Chromatic Mysteries: soundtracks 1963-2009. In 2014, Shame File Music released Hootonics, Arthur Cantrill's soundtrack for Harry Hooton on vinyl. In 2011, their work was the focus of a retrospective exhibition at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, titled Light Years.

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