Island Home Country · 2008

Island Home Country

Jeni Thornley · 52 min · Australia

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

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Production companies

Anandi Films, University of Technology Sydney

Cast

• Jeni Thornley

  Narrator

• Rinki Bhattacharya

  Self

• Dur-e Dara

  Self

• Jim Everett

  Self

• Phyllis Pitchford

  Self

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  Arundhati Roy

  Self

• Julie Janson

  Self

• Julie Gough

  Self