
The Healing Garden, Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania’ The Healing Garden, Wybalenna, Flinders Island, Tasmania’ Ricky Maynard, in his photographs and in the documentary, Portrait of a Distant Land, communicates a sense of place – a genealogy of thousands of years – embedded in the way he plac...

A few years ago I was at a Conference and Michael Renov gave a paper where he spoke about his notion of the 'four fundamental tendencies of documentary' : 1. To record, reveal, or preserve 2. To persuade or promote3. T...

ISLAND HOME COUNTRY This is an interview I did for ABC Northern Tasmania this week. You can listen to it here. A sensitive interviewer, Siobhan Maiden, had watched the film, knew it well and even initiated a discussion of the Freud sequence in the film. She is the first!
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Jeni Thornley's ancestors were convicts. Jeni grew up in Tasmania in the 1950's, and then moved becoming a filmmaker along the way. In 2004, Jeni admitted to herself she knew (or remembered) little about Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their culture...

ISLAND HOME COUNTRY Lenny Ann Low's SMH TV Guide review of ISLAND HOME COUNTRY : SCREENING ABC1, 3pm this Sunday 5th July: "In a broad sense, filmmaker Jeni Thornley's perceptive and very personal documentary...
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Why an image from Sunless? Well, a blog on Sebald, Vertigo: Collecting& Reading W.G. Sebald, compares Marker and Sebald.This site also reviews Australian author Deane Blackler's book, “Reading W.G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience”. I...

ISLAND HOME COUNTRY
TV PREMIERE OF ISLAND HOME COUNTRY
Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC TV 1
Island Home Country - a poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonized history and how it impacts into the present;
A new 52 min documentary by Jeni Thornley. Filming with her white settler convict family in Tasmania, other ‘newcomer Australians’ a...nd ‘First Australians’, Island Home Country offers
insights into how various individuals reckon with the legacies of British colonialism and its race based policies. The film’s consultative process suggests an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma. The film reflects how art-making and creative process can provide potent insights. Island Home Country suggests ‘newcomer’ Australians acknowledge the First Australians and their sovereignty, learn to care for country and work together in a in a process of decolonization.
Assist the film’s distribution by recommending your library purchase the DVD. Or advise your local School, TAFE & University library to copy off air via screenrights: http://www.screen.org
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Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC 1
Time:3:00PM Sunday, July 5th
Location:wherever you have access to a TV: ABC 1 July 5th 3pm

Television Island Home Country screens on Sunday Arts, ABC national television on 28 June at 20.30 (ABC2) and 5 July at 15.00 (ABC1) ...

"Who Owns Native Culture": This is a good resource for cultural property debates, from a variety of perspectives and interests - indigenous, Western, and non-Western; academic, professional and amateur; consumers and producers - to promote meaningful discussion of the complexities, competing...

Australian Teachers of Media have just finished the film's Study Guide. It is available on their website now: http://www.metromagazine.com.au/studyguides/study.asp and on the film's website soon: http://www.jenithornley.com
















