Jeni Thornley Movies
- 1993
Breathing Under Water
Breathing Under Water6.21993HD
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...
- 1996
To The Other Shore
To The Other Shore01996HD
A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life...
- 1983
For Love or Money
For Love or Money01983HD
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...
- 1973
A Film for Discussion
A Film for Discussion01973HD
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...
- 1988
Thanks Girls and Goodbye
Thanks Girls and Goodbye01988HD
Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.
- 2008
Island Home Country
Island Home Country52008HD
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...
- 2023
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary
Memory Film: A Filmmaker's Diary02023HD
‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...
- 1978
Maidens
Maidens01978HD
Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical...
- 1974
Still Life
Still Life01974HD
A female life-model sits for a class of male artists.