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Nice Coloured Girls

  • 19871987
  • 16m
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Nice Coloured Girls (1987)
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Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunke... Read allNice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitat... Read allNice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured ... Read all
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  • Director
    • Tracey Moffatt
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    • Tracey Moffatt
    • Watkin Tench
    • William Bradley
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    • Gayle Mabo
    • Cheryl Pitt
    • Janelle Court
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    • Tracey Moffatt
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    • Watkin Tench
    • William Bradley
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    • Gayle Mabo
    • Cheryl Pitt
    • Janelle Court
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    Gayle Mabo
    • Aboriginal Woman Aas Aboriginal Woman A
    Cheryl Pitt
    • Aboriginal Woman Bas Aboriginal Woman B
    Janelle Court
    • Aboriginal Woman Cas Aboriginal Woman C
    Fiona George
    • Aboriginal Woman Das Aboriginal Woman D
    Mykal Sobey
    • Punkas Punk
    Lindsay Trott
    • Barmaidas Barmaid
    Daniela Girinelli
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    Kristina Nehm
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    Michael Johnson
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    Monica Stevens
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    John Samah
    • Man in Public Bar Doorwayas Man in Public Bar Doorway
    Rosemary Meagher
    • Aboriginal Woman on Beachas Aboriginal Woman on Beach
    Robert Mullholland
    • Irish Voice Overas Irish Voice Over
    Ralph Cotterill
    Ralph Cotterill
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    Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women taking advantage of a white man with a voice over of journal extracts from early white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white history and to deny the image of Aborigines as passive and powerless. 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. The soundscape recalls a rural environment, while the voice-over of extracts from the diary of colonist Lieutenant William Bradley recalls the first settlement.
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