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Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy; A film by Tracey Moffatt
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Two people suspended in a soundscape - a space punctuated by a stark and corrosive sound. The wail of a dingo, an owl, the grating beat of an iron lung, a gasp, a cry for breath and above all a cacophony of memory.

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