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Nice Colored Girls

Women Make Movies • 17m

Directed by Tracey Moffatt • Drama • With Gayle Mabo, Cheryl Pitt, Janelle Court • 1987 • 16 minutes

This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the “first encounter” between colonizers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. Through counterpoint of sound, image, and printed text, the film conveys the perspective of Aboriginal women while acknowledging that oppression and enforced silence still shape their consciousness.

“With humor, elegance and finesse, Tracey Moffatt brilliantly deconstructs the classic good girl/bad girl dichotomy in a game of seduction, symbolic violence and illusions.” —Berenice Reynaud

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aboriginal, australia, cinema studies, drama, drama_genre, expository, narrative, narrative_genre, new zealand, nice colored girls, oppression, ovid, ovid_ca, post-colonialism, racism, short, shortnar, tracey moffatt, women make movies

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