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Aug 21, 2011 · Night Cries – A Rural Tragedy. Directed by Tracey Moffat, 1990. The 17 minute film explores the relationship between mother and daughter and alludes to the assimilation policy that forced Aboriginal children to be raised in white families.
She becomes not only the tourist seeking a week of sun and cheap romance on the island, but the gnarled fisherman struggling to make a life there; not only the privileged, alienated outsider, but the restless, dissatisfied insider; not only the female, but the male.
Night summary. The narrator starts by reflecting that dramatic events in her childhood always coincided with a snowstorm. This was also the case when, one night, the narrator experienced pain in her side and was taken to hospital by her neighbours’ horses to have her appendix removed.
Night Cries not only rises up to that challenge but reaches so far beyond the reasonable that it circles around to being innately admirable.
- Andrew Cymek
A psychological thriller about a man's obsession with finding his wife in a post-apocalyptic world.
Summary. A mother sits holding her daughter, cradling her on her lap. A soft light falls over them. Beyond the light is darkness. Then the woman, now older, lies on her back, her daughter in a foetal position curled by her side. There is only the sound of an iron lung, and the crying of a baby.
A middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her old white mother. During her tending of the old woman, she expresses her frustrations and previously suppressed anger, her own need for warmth and love, and her personal loneliness.
