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In This Life's Body: Shadows
Title:
In This Life's Body: Shadows
NFSA ID
554557
Year
1984
In her momentous 147-minute filmic autobiography In This Life’s Body (1984), Corinne Cantrill reflects on the events of her life using photographs and home movies.
Some of the shots in this clip feature behind-the-scenes footage of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill filming their 1981 feature The Second Journey (to Uluru).
Corinne's philosophical voice-over on what it means to capture her own image – even in shadow or reflection – is representative of the film's larger meditation on photography, the body, time, and death. She was known to get up and perform tai chi during screenings of the film.
Corinne was a pioneering figure in Australian experimental filmmaking. Read more about her life and see examples of her work.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.