Nice coloured girls

Australia, 1987

Film First Nations
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Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Australian First nations women and white men in the past and the present. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women taking advantage of a white man with voice over extracts from early journals of white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white history and to deny the image of First Nations people as passive and powerless.

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Credits

director

Tracey Moffatt

creator

Tracey Moffatt

producer

Tracey Moffatt

Duration

00:16:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1987

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1003566

Language

English

Subject category

Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

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