Island Home Country
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2008-08-02 • 0h 52m
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.
- Directors
- Jeni Thornley
- Writters
- Jeni Thornley
Island Home Country
Visit website2008-08-02 • 0h 52m
5.0/10 • 1
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.
- Directors
- Jeni Thornley
- Writters
- Jeni Thornley
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsJeni Thornley
Narrator
Rinki Bhattacharya
Self
Dur-e Dara
Self
Jim Everett
Self
Phyllis Pitchford
Self
Arundhati Roy
Self
Julie Janson
Self
Julie Gough
Self
Clive Atkinson
Self
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- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- australiasocial documentaryindigenous australianstasmaniantasmaniaaustralian historywomen in filmsocial & cultural documentarysuper8