Skin of Your Eye by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill: Excerpt

This clip is from Skin of Your Eye (1973), an experimental feature by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.

The film is a cinematic essay about the flow of time, the filmic process, and the Melbourne counter-culture scene in the early 1970s. It includes many formally inventive techniques, including rear projection and the refilming of black-and-white footage in colour. 

In a text for their later expanded cinema work, Skin of Your Eye Seen, Arthur and Corinne described how each sequence of Skin of Your Eye was concerned with a particular aspect of the process: 'the relationship of projector, screen, camera, the film strip of the positive or negative, the coloured gelatin, the film frame, the projector gate, the projector lens, the projected image of the screen and the blackness around... colour and lack of colour, black-and-white, negative and positive, over and underexposure.'

The Cantrills were pioneering figures in Australian experimental filmmaking. Read more about the life and work of Corinne Cantrill.