Jeni Thornley
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.
A Film for Discussion
as uncreditedA docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an...
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Island Home Country
as NarratorA poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the...
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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
as Self‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s...
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