Skin of Your Eye is a major cine­ma­tic essay about the flow of time, the fil­mic pro­cess, and the Melbourne coun­ter-cul­tu­re sce­ne in the ear­ly 1970s. The film was pro­jec­ted in various for­mats over the years and pre­sen­ted at EXPRMNTL 5 in Knokke, Belgium (1974). We show the sin­gle-screen ver­si­on on the print pre­ser­ved at the Royal Belgian Film Archive. Arthur and Corinne Cantrill descri­bed how each sequen­ce of Skin of Your Eye is con­cerned with a par­ti­cu­lar aspect of the pro­cess: ​“the rela­ti­ons­hip of projec­tor, screen, came­ra, the film strip of the posi­ti­ve or nega­ti­ve, the colou­red gela­tin, the film fra­me, the pro­jec­tor gate, the pro­jec­tor lens, the pro­jec­ted ima­ge of the screen and the black­ness around… colour and lack of colour, black-and-whi­te, nega­ti­ve and posi­ti­ve, over and underexposure.”

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