Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
Tracey Moffatt
On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middleaged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures mask an almost palpable hostility. Moffatt’s 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.
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt’s work draws on history of cinema, art and photography as well as popular culture and her own childhood memories and fantasies. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Tracey Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. Since her first solo exhibition in Sydney in 1989, she has exhibited all over the world. Her films Night Cries and Bedevil were selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 and 1993.
Films by Tracey Moffatt
Love 2003 | Lip 1999 | Heaven 1997 | Bedevil 1993 | Nice Coloured Girls 1987
