Cantrills Filmnotes

Cantrills Filmnotes was founded and published by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.^[1] The first issue of the magazine appeared on 19 March 1971.^[2] Its headquarters was in Melbourne.^[3] Arthur and Corinne Cantrill were editors of Cantrills Filmnotes.^[4]

The frequency of Cantrills Filmnotes varied: for the first two years it was published on a bi-monthly basis; from 1973 to 1974 it was published four times a year and from 1975 to 2000 it was published biannually.^[5] Its first issue appeared in the A4 format, but the remaining issues were printed in the 270x210mm format.^[4] The magazine was financed by the Australian Film Commission from October 1984 (issue #45/46) to December 1998 (issue #91/92).^[1][6]

Cantrills Filmnotes published the Manifesto of the Italian Futurists and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill's own manifesto on cinema in its inaugural issue.^[2] For the magazine the views of both Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud were not valid any more.^[2] The magazine mostly featured the reviews of experimental films or avant-garde films, video art and digital media.^[1][7] All the topics covered in the magazine were discussed from the artists' perspectives.^[4]

Cantrills Filmnotes ceased publication with the issue December 1999-January 2000 (#93-100) due to financial problems.^[1][5][6]

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