One Night the Moon
Clip 1: Calling all dreamers
2 min 58 sec
Taken from the feature One Night the Moon (2001)
Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
Curator’s clip description
A homestead. The point of view moves from the exterior of the homestead into the interior, entering through the window. A small girl child’s voice begins to sing, ‘One night the moon …’ A young girl is snuggled with her mother on the bed. Her father steps out of the shadows of the hallway and enters the bedroom and joins in the singing of the lullaby.
Curator’s notes
A beautiful entrance into the story of One Night the Moon. The beginning establishes the film as a musical, and the lullaby that the family sings, written by Paul Kelly, sets the tone of the film as that of a lullaby – a tale that unfolds through song. The song is used in this film as a vehicle to explore the characters’ interior worlds, something very unusual for a film, and some may argue, an impossibility of the medium. But One Night the Moon does this with enchanting success.
Romaine Moreton, curator
