The Second Journey (to Uluru)Even when human beings are nowhere in sight, the Australian landscape is full of sounds - the voices of birds and insects, of the wind and of water.
This program of short films by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill ranges across the country from the south Victorian coast in Airey's Inlet, to Central Australia in The Second Journey (to Uluru), Stradbroke Island in Island Fuse and the Grampians in the three-colour separation film Waterfall.
Shot on the ruined site of a failed sheep property in the Black Range of Western Victoria, The Land is Not Empty is an extended meditation on a haunted land, with the camera following the movements of a trudging observer, and a soundscape designed to convey the anguish of loss.
The program concludes with three two-screen works: Interior/Exterior, an exploration of the difference between human and camera vision; Meteor Crater - Gosse Bluff, in which a panning camera traverses the interior of a large crater in Central Australia; and Corporeal, shot in New South Wales bushland at the edge of a rock pool, the camera rising and falling with the filmmaker's breath.
Screening:
Airey's Inlet 5 mins, 1997
The Second Journey (to Uluru) (extract) 18 mins, 1981
Island Fuse 11 mins, 1971
Waterfall 18 mins, 1984
The Land Is Not Empty 26 mins, 2000
Interior/Exterior 3 mins,1978
Meteor Crater - Gosse Bluff 6 mins, 1978
Corporeal 18 mins, 1983
The program will be introduced by Clinton Green (Shame File Music).
