COURTISANE FESTIVAL 2026: 1-5 April

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill: Skin of Your Eye

1 June, 2025 - 17:00
CINEMATEK, Brussels

Skin of Your Eye is the clo­sing film in a four-part scree­ning series dedi­ca­ted to the work of the Australian film­ma­king cou­ple Arthur (1938) and Corinne Cantrill (1928−2025). The scree­nings take pla­ce in Ghent (Art Cinema OFFoff) and Brussels (Cinema Parenthèse, CINEMATEK) bet­ween May 18 – 20 and on June 1.

→ Curated and intro­du­ced by Anthony Brynaert, Keegan O’Connor and Audrey Lam  

→ In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Art Cinema OFFoff, Cinema Parenthèse & CINEMATEK

Skin of Your Eye

Arthur & Corinne Cantrill
,
AU
,
1973
,
16mm
,
116'

Skin of Your Eye is a major cine­ma­tic essay about the flow of time, the fil­mic pro­cess, and the Melbourne coun­ter-cul­tu­re sce­ne in the ear­ly 1970s.  The film was pro­jec­ted in various for­mats over the years and pre­sen­ted at EXPRMNTL 5 in Knokke, Belgium (1974). We show the sin­gle-screen ver­si­on on the print pre­ser­ved at the Royal Belgian Film Archive.  

Arthur and Corinne Cantrill descri­bed how each sequen­ce of Skin of Your Eye is 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.”