Island Home Country (2008)

Island Home Country

2008

Documentary History

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Jeni Thornley

Cast

Arundhati Roy as Self

Clive Atkinson as Self

Dur-e Dara as Self

Jan Thornley as Self

Jeni Thornley as Narrator

Jim Everett as Self

Julie Gough as Self

Julie Janson as Self