| Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
In this ghost trilogy, experimental video artist and photographer Tracey Moffatt portrays the historical oppression of indigenous peoples, especially women.
beDevil, directed by Tracey Moffatt. Australia, 1993. 88'. Original soundtrack with Spanish subtitles
Three supernatural Australian folk tales comprise this trilogy. The first tells the story of Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, who is haunted by an American soldier who drowned in quicksand. In the second, Ruby, played by Moffatt herself, and her family live in a house near abandoned train tracks, where spectres still lurk. The final tale is about a landlord who has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that has been dead for years.
Tracey Moffatt (Australia, 1960) is a photographer and filmmaker who studied film and video production at the Queensland College of the Arts. In addition to writing and directing several films, in 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with a solo show titled My Horizon. In her work, Moffatt combines present facts and historical events and externalises the complicated relationship between black Aborigines and white colonisers, shown by fusing dreamlike images with both personal and historical documentation.
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