As humanity races to build artificial intelligence, filmmaker Jane Hanckel sets out to explore something far older and more mysterious: the intelligence of being human. From Australia to Finland and the European Parliament in Brussels, she follows a path through childhood, education, neuroscience — and her own memories — encountering children who still question, imagine, create and trust their own knowing. As Jane begins to recognise how easily, as we grow, curiosity, intuition, wonder and self-trust can be lost, her investigation becomes something more personal: a journey of remembering. The Infinite Child leaves us with a simple, urgent possibility: perhaps the future depends not only on what we can create, but on remembering who we were before the world told us otherwise.
I have directed a number of short films including A Love of Nature and God Save the Queen, a film campaigning to preserve the Queen Victoria Building. The film was screened at the Sydney Film Festival.
I have always had an interest in documentaries as a tool for social change. When I first started researching the film, documentaries were still the second cousin to fictional film making and had little chance of creating a social impact past the screenings either on one of the broadcast networks or film screenings. Following the rise of social impact films to effect social change on a lasting basis it is a potent time to be utilizing the film medium to help ignite social change.
I have an extensive personal skills in shooting, sound recording, editing and sound editing along with a network of colleagues and film makers who I can draw upon for support if required.
