Bedevil

Bedevil, styled BeDevil, is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt. It was the first feature film to be directed by an Aboriginal Australian woman.

Bedevil, styled BeDevil, is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt. It was the first feature film to be directed by an Aboriginal Australian woman. ==Plot== The film is a trilogy of surreal ghost stories. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families, Moffatt created a trilogy in which characters are haunted by the past. All three stories are set in Moffatt's highly stylised, hyper-real, hyper-imaginary Australian landscape. ==Cast== Lex Marinos as Dimitri Tracey Moffatt as Ruby Morphet Riccardo Natoli as Spiro Dina Panozzo as Voula Mawuyul Yanthalawuy as Maudie Les Foxcroft as Old Mickey Banula Marika as Stompie Morphet Auriel Andrew as Older Ruby Daphne Byers Jack Charles as Rick ==Themes== Storytelling is a central concern of beDevil. Creating and sharing stories is a way to make sense of the world, and both encourages and reflects connections between the past and the present, and people and places. Through the process of telling us their stories, each of the narrators in beDevil recount shared tales, a sort of modern folklore. While this brings to mind the importance of storytelling to Indigenous traditions, Moffatt explicitly states that these stories “come from both sides of my background – my white relatives as well as my black relatives.” Yet she also insists that “I don’t think you can call the stories particularly white or Aboriginal”. The hybrid nature of Moffatt's work reflects the way that she perceives the multicultural make-up of Australian society, and she explains that “it is completely natural for me to represent that mixing of races”. beDevil is very much about her stories, weaving together “a personal mythology”, and presenting images that are “so personal that a lot of the time they embarrass me”. ==Production== Tracey Moffatt approached Tony Buckley to produce as she was impressed by the films he had made, especially The Night, the Prowler (1978). Bedevil was filmed on location in Charleville and Bribie Island, Queensland. ==Release== Bedevil was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, before general release on 28 October 1993. ==Box office== Bedevil grossed at the box office in Australia. ==Soundtrack== This soundtrack features music composed and conducted by Carl Vine. ===Track listing=== Mr Chuck 1. Title Sequence 2. The Swamp 3. Young Danny Robs the Shop 4. Harmless Island Travelogue 5. Dangerous Island Travelogue 6. Young Danny Goes to the Cinema 7. Young Danny Wrecks the Cinema 8. The G.I. Revealed Choo Choo Choo Choo 9. The Spirits 10. Ghost Train 11. Haunted Kangaroo Hunt 12. Haunting Spirits 13. Train of Terror Lovin' the Spin I'm In 14. Imelda and Minnie's Stories 15. Spiro's Story 16. Minnie & Beba Appear 17. Imelda's Nightmare 18. Frieda's Story 19. Minnie & Beba Dance 20. The Nightmare Ends 21. End Titles ==References== ==Further reading== ==External links== Bedevil at Oz Movies

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