To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (Not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt’s Moodeitj Yorgas
To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (Not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt’s Moodeitj Yorgas
The hybrid nature of Moodeijt Yorgas, which blends talking heads with oral histories presented through dance, music and optically printed effects, effects an imbrication of documentary and experiments through a specifically non-white, queer feminist authorship. The author thus argues that Moffatt’s film presents a challenge to traditional conceptions of the author/auteur, embedded in Euro-Western exceptionalist individualism. “The stakes for the Moodeitj Yorgas project were therefore high: contesting historical erasure, contemporary misrepresentation by settler culture, and … way in in which settler patriarchy had been internalised within Aboriginal communities to devalue women’s law.”
Keywords: Moodeitj Yorgas, Oral history, Queer culture, Feminist authorship, Aboriginal women, Matriarchy
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