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    Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

    Tracey Moffatt 1990 Australia Short Fiction Film color 19min English 35mm
    In an isolated, surreal Australia homestead, a middle-aged aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter's attentive gestures mask an almost palpable hostility. Their story alludes to the assimilation policy that forced aboriginal children to be raised in white families. The stark, sensual drama unfolds without dialogue against vivid painted sets as the smooth crooning of an aboriginal Christian singer provides ironic counterpoint. Moffatt's first 35mm film displays rare visual assurance and emotional power.

    Director

    Tracey Moffatt

    Born u Brisbane, Australia, on Novemember 12, 1960,Tracey Moffatt studied visual communication at the Queensiand College of Art . She graduated in 1982; her first solo show of photography took place in 1989, in Sydney, where she still lives and works. Moffatt first gained widespread critical attention for her short film ''Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy ''(1990),which was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Her first feature film, ''Bedevil'' was shown in Un Certain Regard Cannes in 1993, and her documentary films and music videos have won critical acclaim. Tracey Moffatt's photography is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.

    Tracey Moffatt

    1985 The Rainbow Serpent

    1987《好''色''女孩》Nice Colored Girl

    1987 Watch out

    1988 Moodeitj Yogas

    1989 It's Up to You

    1990《暗夜哭泣-一個鄉村的悲劇》 Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

    1993《虐待的靈感》 Bedevil

    1993 The Messenger

    1994 Let my Children be

    1995 My island Home

    1997《女竊新樂園》 Heaven

    1999《好萊塢的黑傭》 Lip

    2003 Love

    Director and Written/ Tracey Moffatt

    Casts/ Akira Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle, Agnes Hardwick, Marcia Langton, Jimmy Little

     

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