ISLAND HOME COUNTRY
Release Date:
2008
Genre:
Documentary
Studio:
Independent : Anandi Films: jeni.thornley@gmail.com

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Directed By:
Jeni Thornley
Plot Outline:
Island Home Country is a one hour documentary about Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present. The film offers insights into how various individuals reckon with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race based policies.

The six chapters of the DVD: "Amnesia, Possession, Memory, Mourning, Encounter, Reckoning" open out and analyse the protocols process that the film engaged in - marked by the Howard era at the beginning of the film, to the historic mom... (read more)

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ISLAND HOME COUNTRY wrote at 7:15pm on June 8th, 2008
ISLAND HOME COUNTRY'S FILMMAKING TEAM: Written Directed and Produced by JENI THORNLEY Project & Script Consultant SARAH GIBSON Editor KAREN PEARLMAN Composer & Sound Designer SHARON JAKOVSKY Production Supervisor TOULA ANASTAS Assistant Editor ANDREW CORSI Consultant Producer MEGAN MCMURCHY Assistant to Director STEPHEN GINSBORG. Produced at UTS Sydney (MAP H&SS) c Anandi Films 2008
ISLAND HOME COUNTRY wrote at 9:16pm on May 2nd, 2008
Narration from the film:
I’m implicated in the story of this country. How could I know nothing about colonisation… what happened when the British invaded? I’ll try making a film about it; perhaps that’s a way to reckon with amnesia…with this settler colony that prefers to forget. I sense the colonial layer as a piece of skin…what if I can shed it and see with different eyes.

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