MARGOT NASH
As If Productions
Screenings
Vacant Possession - Newly Restored by Piccolo Films
a film by Margot Nash 94 min 1994
Screening on NITV Monday 24 March 10pm
Synopsis
VACANT POSSESSION is a story of two families - one white, one Indigenous - both living in the shadow of the past. A past fragmented by events too long unresolved. Weaving dream, memory and fantasy, past and present, VACANT POSSESSION is a story of conflict and the complexities of reconciliation.
See Press Kit
See: https://www.margotnash.com/vacant-possession
Undercurrents: meditations on power 2023
a film by Margot Nash 19 min
Amdocs - American Documentary and Animation Festival
Palm Springs March 27 -2 31 2025
Synopsis
A cautionary poem or 'song' for the dark times. Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s
archive and other found materials.
See: https://www.margotnash.com/undercurrents
See: Press Kit
Bread and Dripping (1981) 16min Newly Restored by Piccolo Films
a film by Vic Smith, Margot Nash, Elizabeth Schaffer, Donna Foster and Wendy Brady
Cinema Reborn
Sydney: 6pmTuesday May 6th Randwick Ritz and Melbourne 5:30 Friday May 9th Lido Cinemas
Four women recount their lives during the bleak years of the economic depression of the 1930s. Tibby Whalan, Eileen Pittman, Beryl Armstrong and Mary Wright describe their struggles to survive and maintain families when faced with widespread unemployment, evictions and hardship. T meal of leftover fat soaked in bread and eaten when no other food is available.
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