In This Life's Body

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 (1928-2025), 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.