SEE EVENTS below for the upcoming TV screenings:
Sunday June 28th 8.30pm ABC TV 2
Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC TV 1
Sunday June 28th 8.30pm ABC TV 2
Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC TV 1
Information
- Release Date:
- 2008
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Studio:
- Independent : Anandi Films: jeni@jenithornley.com; IHC Collage: Graphic Design: Tim Baines; Cover Design: Ali Chehelnabi; Aboriginal Flag: Harold Thomas; Paintings: PennyX Saxon
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- TV PREMIERE OF ISLAND HOME COU...
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Today, July 5 at 3:00pm
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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...
Source: www.smh.com.au
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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”...
Sunday July 5th 3pm ABC 1
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 in...
Host:Jeni Thornley
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
Tasmanian author and commentator Richard Flanagan launched James Boyce's Van Diemen's Land - a new, groundbreaking history of the settlement of Tasmania - at the North Fitzroy Star in February 2008.
This week in a Seminar on Constructing the Nation I screened a montage from the opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games; a clip from Obama's Democratic Acceptance Speech and a clip from Three Rooms of Melancholia...
I started to wake up to race in the 60s. We’d gone, us anthropology students, to build transitional houses for the Pitjantjatjara people…I went with my best friend Moni. I filmed with her for this film...
An effect of amnesia is the inability to imagine the future. strange, I meditate to try and be in the present and stop worrying about the future.....in any case here is Chapter 1 Menu design for the film Island Home Country...
ISLAND HOME COUNTRY
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
June 8, 2008 at 7:15pm · Report
A clip from Maidens In a way making Island Home Country has been a revisiting of both Maidens and Tasmania, growing up, as I did, in the repressive era of the 1940s-1950s on that island...
The future, and this present moment of documentary distribution- on line and the role of the traditional educational distributors is discussed in this article in independent, the new on line Independent Film & Video Monthly...
Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam wrote this essay The Visual Representation of Developing Countries by Developmental Agencies and the Western Media in May 1994. But it's still relevant in 2008.
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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.
May 2, 2008 at 9:16pm · Report
We finished the film last night. Assistant editor Andrew Corsi and I working through this last (almost) year to bring this project to completion, a project that began in 2004. Karen Pearlman joined me as editor in 2005...
Dear Pa, I am writing this letter to you on Anzac Day eve. Here you are as a young Anzac and this is my narration in an Anzac sequence in my current documentary ISLAND HOME COUNTRY...
The frame is from Island Home Country. The text - a quote from David Tiley at AIDC 08 on Greenaway's plenary at the Conference. I, didn't go, of course. No money and at the beginning of the fifth year of making a film that defies completion....how to explain this rabbit hole I am down...
Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton, at the filmmaker's grave. Julien has curated a retrospective on Jarman...
Immersed in links to international distribution of documentaries - in this era of multi platforms - traditional and new paradigms circling each other...and I stumbled on Jonas Mekas's site: what a find! And then STREAM and then From Here to Awe
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!