Memory Film: A Filmmakers Diary – Jeni Thornley (Newport Beach, NSW, Australia)Memory Film is an immersive, poetic documentary by Jeni Thornley based on her silent Super 8 archive (1974-2003), filmed during the decades of her personal and political filmmaking. Accompanied by a sweeping score by Egyptian-Australian oud maestro, Joseph Tawadros, Memory Film is a lovingly crafted, lucid meditation on resistance, legacy and carving out one’s place amid constant transformation. Documenting the activism of three decades, amidst the intense sexual politics of radical feminism and social change, Memory Film is also a road movie of an inner journey of liberation – gender fluidity, utopian feminism, love and its tribulations, the pleasure and pain of motherhood, violence against women and the desire for a world free of war and colonizing. Thornley’s ‘Farewell film poem to life’ unfolds with haunting tactility: along with the celluloid’s visible grain, foregrounding both impermanence and the inexorable passage of time. 2023; 81 min.

Memory Film: A Filmmakers Diary

Memory Film is an immersive, poetic documentary by Jeni Thornley based on her silent Super 8 archive (1974-2003), filmed during the decades of her personal and political filmmaking.

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The Spring 2023 New Jersey Film Festival All Access Festival Pass gives you admission to all the Festival Screenings for one low price.

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The 42nd Bi-Annual Festival will be taking place on select Fridays and Sundays between September 8-October 8. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. Each ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. The in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date.  Tickets: $15=Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100. Here is the link for the "Tickets/Info/Schedule" button: https://watch.eventive.org/newjerseyfilmfestivalfall2023    All films are subject to change.     Patrons who will view remotely can only buy one ticket at a time as we need individual email addresses to transmit online versions of the film screenings.  We can sell bulk tickets to patrons using Venmo but this would only be good for the in-person screenings. Contact us if you would like more info on bulk ticket purchasing at this email address:  njmac@aol.com   

Welcome to the 2023 New Jersey International Film Festival! The 28th Annual Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays between June 2-11. The Festival will be presenting the Festival online as well as doing select in-person screenings. 

Here's what's coming up soon. Can't make it? No sweat. Many live streams will be available for on-demand viewing as well.