The University Library's collection contains a wide range of films by indigenous filmmakers, and films with indigenous content.

This page features some of the collection.

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Jedda (1955)

An Aboriginal woman dies in childbirth on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory. The baby girl is raised by the station owner’s wife, Sarah McMann, after the death of her own child. Jedda (Margaret Dingle) grows up between cultures – forbidden from learning about her own, not fully accepted by the other. (read more) Check availability here

Tracey Moffat (1960-)

Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most successful visual artists and is credited as being the first Aboriginal woman to make a feature film.

Moffatt prefers to be addressed as an 'artist’ rather than an 'Aboriginal artist’.

Her other audiovisual work includes Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989), BeDevil1993), Heaven (1997) and Lip (1999). Moffatt’s photographic works include Something More (1989), Scarred for Life (1994), GUAPA (Good Looking)1995), Up in the Sky (1997), Under the Sign of Scorpio (2005), Portraits (2007) and Doomed (2007), a collaboration with Gary Hillberg.

A retrospective of Tracey Moffatt’s work opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003.

References

Moreton 2003, Nice Coloured Girls, Australian Screen, viewed 14 August 2009,

Films held in the UTas Library:

Check out the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Audiovisual Archive.

The AIATSIS Audiovisual Archive holds the world's premier collection of moving image, recorded sound and photographic materials relating to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories.