Island Home Country

Island Home Country

52 mins | Documentary, History | Aug. 2, 2008

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.

Island Home Country

52 mins | Documentary, History | Aug. 2, 2008

Island Home Country
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.
Producers University of Technology Sydney, Anandi Films
Original title Island Home Country
Directors Stephen Ginsborg, Jeni Thornley
Writers Jeni Thornley

Cast

Jeni Thornley

as Narrator

Dur-e Dara

as Self

Jim Everett

as Self

Arundhati Roy

as Self

Julie Janson

as Self

Julie Gough

as Self

Clive Atkinson

as Self

Jan Thornley

as Self