Jeni Thornley

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 w...

06 de jan. de 1973

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals...

02 de ago. de 2008

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 ...

15 de mai. de 1993

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 ...

28 de out. de 1983

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003) filmed during the decades...

13 de ago. de 2023

A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy ...

01 de ago. de 1996

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

22 de set. de 1988

A female life-model sits for a class of male artists.

01 de jan. de 1974

Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical nar...

28 de fev. de 1978