Plot Summary

‘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.

Movie Details

Original Title
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Status
released
Original Language
en
Budget
$5K

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Production Companies

Documentary Australia Foundation logoDocumentary Australia Foundation
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) logoNational Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)
Anandi Films
University of Technology Sydney logoUniversity of Technology Sydney
MIFF Premiere Fund logoMIFF Premiere Fund