Avant-garde filmmakers Corinne Cantril and her husband Arthur have made more than eighty films, many of them quite provocative. They began their professional union in 1963 with a series of independent films on child arts and crafts for ABC-TV, the Australian national network. Soon after, they went to London until 1969 where they accepted a fellowship at Australian National University. There they became influential in acquiring a body of avant-garde films for the National Library. To promote knowledge and an appreciation of avante-garde film, the two began a series of lecture and screening tours of Australia. In these presentations they showed their multi-projection and film-performance work. All of their works deeply explore the process of filming and the audience perception of visuals with a particular fixation upon the use landscape in order to create a national identity. The films vary in length from the two-minute Zap (1971) to 148 minutes for In This Life's Body (1984). ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi