Movie Details
Original Language:English
The City of Chromatic Dissolution
16 min
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are two of Australias most prominent experimental filmmakers The Cantrills are well known for their colour separation films To create these works they shoot a scene three separate times on black and white film stock using a different colour filter each time In the lab they combine these three films onto a single Eastmancolour print This process creates dramatic transitions in colour that the Cantrills liken to the vibrancy of Technicolor Though the footage here was shot in the mid80s it was only last year that they edited it into this fifteenminute movie Structurally its simple enough just a series of views of various parts of inner Melbourne from panoramic wide shots to closeups of the sides of buildings The soundtrack blends and warps familiar urban noises cars buskers the ringing bells of trams into a kind of musique concréte
