Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary
When
Wed 30 Oct 2024
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Thornley’s latest – which had its world premiere at the 2023 edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival – is a hypnotic diary film composed solely of the filmmaker’s silent Super 8 archive shot between 1974 and 2003, featuring an immersive score composed by Egyptian-Australian oud maestro, Joseph Tawadros. Exploring concerns as wide-ranging as radical feminism, gender fluidity, Aboriginal land rights and sovereignty, psychotherapy and Eastern spirituality, this intimate summary work is inspired by the jisei, a form of Japanese poetry written as a “farewell poem to life”, often considering the future death of the author and offered as a gift for one’s family and society.
To to be introduced by the filmmaker.
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