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Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

"An immersive, poetic diary film about transformation and ‘the personal is political’."

Release2023
Runtime1H 20M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased

Synopsis

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003) filmed during the decades of her political and personal filmmaking, while producing ‘Maidens’, ‘To the Other Shore’, ‘Island Home Country’ and the collaborative feature ‘For Love or Money’. Documenting the activism of three decades amidst the intense sexual politics of radical feminism and social change, ‘memory film’ tells the inner story of a journey of liberation – gender fluidity, utopian feminism, love and its tribulations, the pleasure and pain of motherhood, violence against women, the desire for a world free of war and colonizing, and ultimately mortality and impermanence.

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Full Cast & Crew (7)

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Director

Jeni Thornley

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Box Office

Budget$0M

External Links

Countries:Australia
Production:Documentary Australia FoundationNational Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)Anandi FilmsUniversity of Technology SydneyMIFF Premiere Fund