"An immersive, poetic diary film about transformation and ‘the personal is political’."
2023-08-13en80m
Documentary
‘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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Editor
Lindi Harrison
Co-Producer
Tom Zubrycki
Technical Advisor
Marcus Eckermann
Director
Jeni Thornley
Consulting Producer
Megan McMurchy
Technical Advisor
Toula Anastas
Status
Released
Budget
$5,045
Countries
Australia
Companies
Documentary Australia Foundation
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)