Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy: Washing feet

Title:
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy: Washing feet
NFSA ID
524741
Year
1989
Courtesy
Tracey Moffatt and Roslyn Oxley Gallery
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
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A pair of frail, gnarled feet. The Aboriginal daughter (Marcia Langton) on her hands and knees, gently washes her white mother’s arthritic feet. The Aboriginal woman begins to remember another time, when as a family they would visit the beach.

Summary by Romaine Moreton.

Tracey Moffatt continues to challenge the social construction of Aboriginality and how it is viewed nationally and internationally. Night Cries is a possible sequel to Jedda.