Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary

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

Overview

‘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.

Budget

$5,045

Production

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