Night cries : a rural tragedy [WorldCat Entities]

"A fictional story in which a middle-aged Aboriginal woman resents the responsibility of caring for her old white mother. Her memories and dreams invade her routine until the old woman's mortality fuels the daughter's guilt and loss. Filmed entirely in a studio, with vibrantly colored sets and extremely creative use of ambient sound."@en
"An older daughter resents the responsibility of caring for her aged mother."@en
"This is an experimental narrative focused centrally on the theme of mother-daughter relationships in the context of white-Aboriginal relations. The film Jedda (1955) is a point of departure. The characters of the white mother and the black daughter in the Chauvel film are taken 40 years on. The story of love-hate and loneliness, also drawing upon the filmmaker's own relationship with her foster mother, unfolds in a deliberately artificial studio setting which recalls the opening of Jedda. In an evocatively dense soundtrack Jimmy Little, miming The Royal Telephone in the filmmaker's words 'acts as a punctuation within the film's narrative and soothes over the tensions which are present between the other characters'. Moffat compares its role to that of the Roy Orbison song in Blue Velvet."@en
"A short experimental film by Tracey Moffatt, shot totally in a studio, 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."@en
"In a constructed landscape and soundscape, a middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. It explores frustration, anger, loneliness, memories, dreams and finally loss."
"This is an experimental narrative focused centrally on the theme of mother-daughter relationships in the context of white-Aboriginal relations. The film Jedda (1955) is a point of departure. The characters of the white mother and the black daughter in the Chauvel film are taken 40 years on. The story of love-hate and loneliness, also drawing upon the filmmaker's own relationship with her foster mother, unfolds in a deliberately artificial studio setting which recalls the opening of Jedda. In an evocatively dense soundtrack Jimmy Little, miming The Royal Telephone in the filmmaker's words 'acts as a punctuation within the film's narrative and soothes over the tensions which are present between the other characters'. Moffat compares its role to that of the Roy Orbison song in Blue Velvet. Also available on 16mm film."
"An aboriginal girl's plight (and burden) to take care of her ailing and almost incapacitated mother. The elements to create a realistic haunting atmosphere include a wide array of symbolic soundscapes matched with an entirely studio-based setting."
"A drama without dialogue about a very elderly white mother and her adopted aboriginal daughter, which alludes to the assimilation policy that forced aboriginal children to be raised by white parents."@en
"A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying old white mother till the mother dies."
"A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying old white mother till the mother dies."@en
"This is an experimental narrative focused centrally on the theme of mother-daughter relationships in the context of white-Aboriginal relations. The film Jedda (1955) is a point of departure. The characters of the white mother and the black daughter in the Chauvel film are taken 40 years on. The story of love-hate and loneliness, also drawing upon the filmmaker's own relationship with her foster mother, unfolds in a deliberately artificial studio setting which recalls the opening of Jedda. In an evocatively dense soundtrack Jimmy Little, miming The Royal Telephone in the filmmaker's words 'acts as a punctuation within the film's narrative and soothes over the tensions which are present between the other characters'. Moffatt compares its role to that of the Roy Orbison song in Blue Velvet."@en
"A middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her old white mother. During her tending of the old woman we feel her frustration with her filial responsibilities, her suppressed anger, her own need for warmth and love, her personal loneliness."