Jeni Thornley
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A Film for Discussion (1973)
A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion...
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary (2023)
‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...
Island Home Country (2008)
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...
Senses of Cinema (2022)
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking...
Breathing Under Water (1993)
BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous...
A Film for Discussion (1973)
A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion...
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary (2023)
‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...
Maidens (1978)
Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical...
To The Other Shore (1996)
A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life...
Island Home Country (2008)
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...
To The Other Shore (1996)
A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life...
Island Home Country (2008)
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...
Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988)
Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.
Maidens (1978)
Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical...
For Love or Money (1983)
Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year...
Still Life (1974)
A female life-model sits for a class of male artists.
A Film for Discussion (1973)
A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion...
For Love or Money (1983)
Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year...