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Island Home Country (2008) Film Screening + Q&A(2008) with Island Home Country Director, Jeni Thornley Film Screening + Q&A with Director, Jeni Thornley 18.00-20.00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 18.00-20.00 Wednesday 16 September Film Studies Screening Room 1 2015 Nash Lecture Ground Floor,Theatre King’s(K2.31) Building, Strand Campus King’s Building, King’s College Strand LondonCampus WC2R 2LS King’s College London WC2R 2LS
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and and how (52(52 mins 2008). history how itit impacts impactsinto intothe thepresent present mins 2008).
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Written, directed and produced by Jeni Thornley. © 2008 Anandi Films. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Written, directed and produced by Jeni Thornley. Land and Sea Council receives a percentage of © 2008 Anandi Films. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Islandand Home returns. Land SeaCountry’s Council distribution receives a percentage of Sales: jenithornley.com. VoD: bit.ly/1Ef7lMJ Island Home Country’s distribution returns.
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Island Home Country Film Screening + Q&A with Director, Jeni Thornley
Island Home Country (2008) Film Screening + Q&A with Director, Jeni Thornley 18.00-20.00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31) King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS
The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London, in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, is delighted to announce a screening of Jeni Thornley’s poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present. Using a mix of narrative and interviews within a film-essay structure, Thornley positions herself both in relation to Tasmanian Aboriginal history, philosophy and society, and that of her own family and society as the ‘interloper’, the accomplice to ‘ethnic cleansing’ and theft of country. Amidst the challenge of Aboriginal cultural protocols, her own white privilege and instability is exposed as she reckons with the ongoing political and ethical dilemmas surrounding settler occupation of Aboriginal country.
18.00-20.00 Wednesday 16 September 2015 Film Studies Screening Room 1 Ground Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS Dr Jeni Thornley is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, film valuer and
teacher. Her poetic essay documentaries Maidens (1978), To the Other Shore (1996), Island Home Country (2008), alongside her collaboratively made social action films, Film For Discussion (1973) and feature documentary and Penguin book, For Love or Money (1983) are landmark films in the history of Australian independent and feminist cinema over the last four Adecades. poeticJeni cine-essay andat Australia’s is an Honoraryabout Researchrace Associate the University ofcolonised Technology (UTS), where sheand lectured in documentary filminto history. Shepresent is currently(52 developing autohistory how it impacts the mins an 2008). ethnographic archival project, memory=film=death poem, based on her super 8 collection, and is writing a memoir/essay exploring neo-colonising in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Written, directed and produced by Jeni Thornley. © 2008 directed Anandi Films. The Tasmanian Written, and produced by JeniAboriginal Thornley. ©Land 2008and Anandi Films. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Sea Council receives a percentage of Land and SeaCountry’s Council distribution receives a percentage Island Home returns. of Island Country’s distribution returns. Sales:Home jenithornley.com. VoD: bit.ly/1Ef7lMJ Sales: jenithornley.com. VoD: bit.ly/1Ef7lMJ
www.jenithornley.com).
Entry is free but booking is required:
Entrythornley.eventbrite.co.uk is free but booking is required: thornley.eventbrite.co.uk Email:
[email protected] Email:Web:
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