The Tracker
April 28, 2019 4:00pm
The African Diaspora International Film Festival Presents:
The Tracker
The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character remains unknown, assists them in their quest. As they move deeper into the bush and further away from civilization, the toxic forces of paranoia and violence begin to escalate, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom. Their journey becomes an acrimonious and murderous trek that shifts power from one man to another, challenged by the indigenous people they come across as well as each other.
“A stark moral fable told in the language of the sort of western Hollywood has stopped making, the Australian director Rolf de Heer’s film The Tracker is constructed around a suite of 10 interlocking story-songs that simmer with political outrage. Composed by Graham Tardif, with lyrics by Mr. de Heer, and performed by Archie Roach, a husky-voiced Aboriginal singer, together they suggest an extended folk ballad in the mode of Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly. The lyrics describe the oppression of Australian Aboriginals with the same mixture of sorrow and resistance that fueled the songs of Bob Marley.” – The New York Times.
Directed by Rolf De Heer, Australlia, 2003, 90 mins, Western/Drama, English.
Contact: African Diaspora International Film Festival
Email: info@nyadiff.org
Phone: (212) 864-1760
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Location
Teacher’s College – Columbia University
525 West 120th Street, Rm# 263 Macy – btwn Amsterdam and Broadway
New York NY 10027 US