In This Life's Body

In honour of the life and work of filmmaker Corinne Cantrill (1928–2025) ACMI invites you to a free screening of her remarkable autobiographical essay film.

Composed almost entirely of still photographs and narrated by Corinne, this singular and deeply moving work explores her childhood in 1930s Sydney, her quest for personal, creative and sexual authenticity, and her relationship with her body, through motherhood, illness and recovery.

A truly original and pioneering artist and filmmaker, Corinne Cantrill, who worked in partnership with her husband Arthur Cantrill (1938– ), created a body of experimental work using the materiality of film to explore the Australian landscape, the nature of perception and the relationship between sound and image. In addition to making feature length and short films, they presented expanded cinema performances and edited and produced 100 issues of the journal Cantrills Filmnotes.  Based in Melbourne since the 1980s, the Cantrills also lived and worked in Berlin, The USA and London, and their work has been collected and exhibited internationally.

The screening will be followed by a free commemorative event, Remembering Corinne Cantrill, with tributes from Dr Tessa Laird (University of Melbourne), Jake Wilson (The Age), author Garrie Hutchinson, Melbourne Filmmakers' Co-Op co-founder Fred Harden, and filmmakers Irene Proebsting and Audrey Lam, in Cameo, ACMI Level 1, from 4.30pm

Registrations required through the ticketing link above.