The Cantrills
**NOTE TUESDAY EVENING**
Tonight we offer a rare screening of imported prints of two 16mm films from the prolific Australian duo Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. For over 50 years, the couple have contributed to a local and national Australian experimental film scene by making films, organizing events and publishing the long-running Cantrills Filmnotes (1971-2000), which connected their local and regional activities to global experimental film culture.
One of the re-occurring tropes of the more than one hundred films by the Cantrills is colour separation, using a three-pass process of shooting black and white film through red, green and blue filters to make a final colour print. This process harkens back to old colour processes like Technicolor and allows the movement of colour in and out of alignment to speak to the passing of time. Experiments in Three-Colour Separation is one such film, made in 1980. Corinne Cantrill’s film At Eltham from 1974 explores her fascination with Australian landscapes and introduces her interest in playing the 16mm camera functions as a musical instrument. In an essay, Corinne notes she subtitled the film ‘A Metaphor on Death’ referring to their despair, at the time, about their future as filmmakers in Australia and their decision to leave the country temporarily.
We open with Moncton’s Amanda Dawn Christie with her 2006 experimental dance film Three Part Harmony: Composition in RGB #1 whose images were recombined into full colour through optical printing one frame at a time. The gestures in this dance work explore the psychological fracturing and reunification in representations of the female body.
Programme:
Experiments in Three-Colour Separation, Arthur + Corinne Cantrill, Australia, 1980, 16mm, 20 minutes
At Eltham – A Metaphor on Death, Corinne Cantrill, Australia, 1974, 16mm, 24 minutes
Three Part Harmony: Composition in RGB #1, Amanda Christie, Canada, 2006, 16mm, 6 minutes
@ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom
1214 Queen Street West
Tuesday June 28, 2016
8:00 PM screening
$5-10 suggested donation
Three Part Harmony: Composition in RGB #1