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In Tracey Moffatt’s visually arresting debut, myth and living memory entwine in a trilogy of ghost stories in surreal Australian landscapes.
This vision of Australia sits at the crossroads of narrative and experimental cinema, an ethereal plane populated by entities real and imagined. Director and visual artist Tracey Moffatt transforms hyperreal studio sets into painterly environments, where ghosts roam free and the past rises to meet us.
Told in three parts – ‘Mr Chuck’, ‘Choo Choo Choo Choo’ and ‘Lovin’ the Spin I’m in’ – these ghost stories are drawn from Moffatt’s Irish and First Nations heritage and brought to life through a bold new cinematic language of her own invention.
Released in 1993, BEDEVIL is now considered one of Australia’s most crucial films. Moffatt collaborated with experienced producer Anthony Buckley to realise the scale and spectacle of her vision, which inhabits the liminal space between reality and fantasy.
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