Moving Statics Arthur and Corinne Cantrill's earliest works included a number of traditional art documentaries, but their collaborations with artists in different media soon took a range of more adventurous forms.
The printmaker Charles Lloyd outlines his working methods with precision in The Incised Image; the prodigious mime Will Spoor explores the possibilities of the human body in the comic and startling Moving Statics; the poet Jas H. Duke pays tribute to Dada (and demonstrates his ability to keep still) in a three-colour-separation fragment; and the "sound poetry" collective Arf Arf functions as both artists and models in Ivor Paints Arf Arf.
All of these figures (and others) are allowed to speak for themselves, with the timbre and rhythm of their voices conveying as much as their words. The program concludes with the rotoscoped Myself When Fourteen, a tour-de-force of optical printing made with the collaboration of the filmmakers' son Ivor.
Screening:
Jas H. Duke Fragment 4 mins, 1976
Skin of Your Eye (extract: Roget) 3 mins, 1973
The Incised Image 23 mins, 1966
Moving Statics 28 mins, 1969
Rehearsal at the Arts Lab 4 mins, 1969
Skin of Your Eye (extract: Think of a Movie) 12 mins, 1973
Projected Light (extract: Futurist Sequence) 2 mins, 1988
Ivor Paints Arf Arf 6 mins, 1998
Myself When Fourteen 19 mins, 1989
The program will be introduced by Jennifer Phipps (independent curator and writer on Australian art).
