Tracey Moffatt's Films

Tracy Moffatt - Night Cries - 1989

Tracey Moffatt’s films push forward the rights of Aboriginals to have an equal participation in contemporary Australia. She reassess the history between black and white Australians, giving attention to the legacy of Australian policies of protection and assimilation. Her films challenge previous styles of representation of Aboriginals in film, partially Aboriginal women. Moffatt does not take the easy way out and only show positive images of Aboriginal people, what she does is try to make her characters real as possible. Moffatt brought Aboriginal characters to screen that had never been shown until that time and shown them to have as many emotions, flaws and qualities as any other person shown on film in Australia.