4000 frames

Australia, 1970

Film
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An ‘eye opener’ film experiment, this is a single frame film where every frame is discontinuous with the preceding frame. An attempt was made to avoid any type of relationship between frames whether of images, shapes and forms or association of ideas. The film sets out to investigate the way in which we can ‘read’ the content of single frames, when the frames are presented under varying conditions. Some of the images have been carefully composed, while others filmed simply as found objects.

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Credits

co-producers/directors

Arthur Cantrill

Corinne Cantrill

production company

Arthur Cantrill

Corinne Cantrill

Duration

00:03:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1970

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

000003

Language

English

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

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