Movies: Jeni Thornley
- 1993
Breathing Under Water (1993)
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BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous world has unsettled everything in Beatrice's (Anne Louise Lambert) life. Her growing unease prompts Bea...
- 1983
For Love or Money (1983)
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Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period....
- 2008
Island Home Country (2008)
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A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consul...
- 1973
A Film for Discussion (1973)
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A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion within the Women’s Liberation Movement at this time and to thus contribute to action for change. In its ...
- 1996
To The Other Shore (1996)
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A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evok...
- 1988
Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988)
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Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army....
- 1978
Maidens (1978)
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Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). Almos...
- 2023
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary (2023)
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‘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 Hom...
- 1974
Still Life (1974)
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A female life-model sits for a class of male artists....