Jeni Thornley
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Biography: Jeni Thornley is a documentary filmmaker, writer and film valuer. Her poetic essay documentaries: Maidens (1978), collaborative feature film and Penguin book, For Love or Money: a history of women and work in Australia (1983), To the Other Shore (1996) and Island Home Country (2008) are landmark films in Australian independent and feminist cinema, widely distributed and also broadcast on ABC TV and SBS. Her films are available online and DVD via beamafilm, Ronin Films and Anandi Films.
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A Film for Discussion
A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...
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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super...
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Island Home Country
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present...
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Senses of Cinema
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the...
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