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 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.”
