Directing

Annette Kennerley

Place of birth

UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Annette Kennerley is a filmmaker and writer living in London. From the late eighties through to the late nineties, artist-filmmaker Annette Kennerley created a unique and deeply personal body of 16mm films that explored the emotional ebb and flow of lesbian relationships and sexuality. At times joyous, witty and sexy yet tinged with melancholy, these films offer an emotionally frank and at times voyeuristic journey through the memories of contentment, desire and regret, with specific reference to her relationship with her young son jack and their playful experiments with gender fluidity. Annette was an early enquirer into trans relationships and identities. Shooting intimate straight-to-cam…

Known for

Matt poster
NR

"Five years after the making of the video portrait Boys in the Backyard, the film maker returns to San Francisco to see what has become of Matt. Articulate and charming, Matt recounts some of his experiences as a transgendered FTM and changes in his life during the last five years." - Cinenova

Matt

1998

No artwork available
NR

The filmmaker revisits footage from 1997 on a trip to Finland’s Arctic Circle to the Midnight Sun Film Festival with Terhi who was conveniently Finnish and (not so conveniently) her ex-girlfriend. They were looking for a man. There was unfinished business.

Finnish Business

2025

No artwork available
NR

A half-remembered lullaby from childhood haunts a new mother as she sets out to re-adjust and re-balance her old life with her new one. A sadness and longing for something lost battles with the excitement of change and the unknown. Flashes of past selves, now-derelict landscapes and remnants of nursery rhymes intertwine with the first days of a new life now as motherhood forces her to grow up and into a new identity.

Red Sails

1989

No artwork available
NR

‘I’m just a regular bloke…’ Kelby’s gender was decided for him at birth – he later put right that mistake. An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Kelby weighs up his latest decision in life – whether to buy a dick or a Harley.

Kelby

2000

Boys in the Backyard poster
3.3

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of ’93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/love, tattoos and tomato plants.

Boys in the Backyard

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

LFMC Last Days in Camden

1996

Film credits

Behind the camera

Matt poster
NR

"Five years after the making of the video portrait Boys in the Backyard, the film maker returns to San Francisco to see what has become of Matt. Articulate and charming, Matt recounts some of his experiences as a transgendered FTM and changes in his life during the last five years." - Cinenova

Matt

1998

No artwork available
NR

The filmmaker revisits footage from 1997 on a trip to Finland’s Arctic Circle to the Midnight Sun Film Festival with Terhi who was conveniently Finnish and (not so conveniently) her ex-girlfriend. They were looking for a man. There was unfinished business.

Finnish Business

2025

No artwork available
NR

A half-remembered lullaby from childhood haunts a new mother as she sets out to re-adjust and re-balance her old life with her new one. A sadness and longing for something lost battles with the excitement of change and the unknown. Flashes of past selves, now-derelict landscapes and remnants of nursery rhymes intertwine with the first days of a new life now as motherhood forces her to grow up and into a new identity.

Red Sails

1989

No artwork available
NR

‘I’m just a regular bloke…’ Kelby’s gender was decided for him at birth – he later put right that mistake. An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Kelby weighs up his latest decision in life – whether to buy a dick or a Harley.

Kelby

2000

Boys in the Backyard poster
3.3

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of ’93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/love, tattoos and tomato plants.

Boys in the Backyard

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

LFMC Last Days in Camden

1996

Sex, Lies, Religion poster
7.0

A sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.

Sex, Lies, Religion

1994

Sex, Lies, Religion poster
7.0

A sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.

Sex, Lies, Religion

1994

No artwork available
NR

A humorous and yet oddly jarring glimpse of the early relationship between a mother and child, exploring notions of control, power, identity and conflict through a dialogue of discordant and distorted repetition.

Let Me Come In

1991

No artwork available
NR

Fading love affair between two women.

Tin Heart, Tinsel Rose

1991

Like Mother, Like Son poster
4.0

A lesbian mother and her son describe what they have in common… parties, dressing up and shopping.

Like Mother, Like Son

1994

After The Break poster
NR

Normal behaviour will resume after the break—but what’s normal when you split up with someone?

After The Break

1998

No artwork available
NR

All children except one grow up. We all know this has to happen… I dont ever want to grow up, said Peter. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun!

Straight On Until Morning

1991