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Films/Videos
Night Cries
1990
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989) is a short experimental film by the esteemed Aboriginal Australian artist, Tracey Moffatt.
In the film, an Aboriginal daughter (Marcia Langton) is caring for her dying white mother (Agnes Hardwick).
The film was written and directed by Tracey Moffatt and shot entirely in a studio.
It was promoted as a possible sequel to Jedda (1955) which was written, produced and directed by Charles Chauvel and which tells the story of an Aboriginal child taken in by a white woman and separated from her own people and culture.
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