Tracey Moffatt

Born in Brisbane, Australia, on November 12, 1960, Tracey Moffat studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art. She graduated in 1982; her first solo show of photography took place in 1989, in Sydney, where she still lives and works. Moffat first gained widespread critical attention for her short film "Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy" (1990), which was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Her first feature film, "Bedevil", was shown in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 1993, and her documentary films and music videos have won critical acclaim. Tracy Moffat’s photography is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. (08/02)

Artist
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color
Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt takes the viewer on a fast-paced journey through Hollywood's depiction of the arti...

Bedevil
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1993, 90 min., Color
BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal...

Heaven
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1997, 28 min., Color
This playful video from famed director and photographer Tracey Moffatt turns the tables on traditional representations of desire to examine the power ...

Lip
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color
It is Hollywood’s favorite role for black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or flippantly dismissive, the performers who play t...

Love
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 2003, 21 min., Color/BW
“The clinch that signals the fade-out in so many movies is just the beginning of Love, as Moffatt and editor Hillberg turn their energetic montage tec...

Nice Colored Girls
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1987, 16 min., Color
This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the “first encount...

Night Cries
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1990, 19 min., Color
On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures ...