Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
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.
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary (2023) is a 1h 20min documentary feature film by Jeni Thornley. ‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive...
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Festival History
- Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2024 generic
- Australian Film Critics Association Awards 2023 generic
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2023 generic
