Tracey Moffatt — Playwright (3)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
other title: 夜晚的哭泣:乡村悲剧
A short film about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places, the haunted look in her eyes loaded with a sense of what could have been. Famous Aboriginal singer, Jimmy Little, sings 'Royal Telephone', evoking the presence of Christianity and its role in the assimilation of Aboriginal people. The final scene sees the daughter lying in a foetal position next to her mother, crying. Assimilation, then, can be understood as a pain experienced by both the Aboriginal daughter as well as the white mother.
Nice Coloured Girls (1987) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nice Coloured Girls
director: Tracey Moffatt actor: Gayle Mabo / Cheryl Pitt
other title: 正派的有色人种姑娘 / 나이스 컬러드 걸즈
Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.
beDevil (1993) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bedevil
director: Tracey Moffatt actor: Lex Marinos / Tracey Moffatt
other title: Bedevil
Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years