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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)

ALL 12/31/1990 (en) Drama 19 Min
  • Release
    12/31/1990
  • Production
    Australian Film Commission
  • Rotten tomato
    47%
  • Original title
    Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Tracey Moffatt

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990) 19 Min

ALL 12/31/1990 (en)
Drama
  • Release 12/31/1990
  • Production
    Australian Film Commission
  • Original title Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Tracey Moffatt

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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