MARGOT NASH
As If Productions
NEWS
REVENANTE FILMS a Paris-based film agency dedicated to the promotion, exhibition, and international circulation of restored and overlooked cinematic works of the past, have selected Vacant Possession ( Nash 1994), Shadow Panic (Nash 1989) and We Aim To Please (Laurie, Nash 1976) for international distribution.
See: https://www.revenantefilms.com/programs/she-dreams-of-revolt-three-by-margot-nash
SCREENINGS
We Aim To Please (Robin Laurie & Margot Nash, 1976) 13min
Screening: Rotterdam International Film Festival 29 Jan - 8 Feb 2026
The Future is Now - celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of NOW (National Organisation for Women), a major moment in the history of the Civil Rights movement as well as Second Wave Feminism.
See: https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2026/films/we-aim-to-please
Vacant Possession a film by Margot Nash 94 min 1994
Newly restored
Currently screening on SBS On Demand
Synopsis
VACANT POSSESSION is a story of two families - one white, one Indigenous - both living in the shadow of the past. A story of conflict and the complexities of reconciliation.
The Brussels International Women's Film Festival
7-15 Oct 2025 screening
We Aim to Please and Vacant Possession in
Retrospective – Traces and Horizons: The Legacies of Maldoror, Mangini and Nash
Screening
St Tropez Cinema des Antipodes 19 October 2025
Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea 30 April - 9 May 2025
The Other Australian Cinema- 1890s to now, Curated by Guest Cinephile Adrian Martin
Synopsis
VACANT POSSESSION is a story of two families - one white, one Indigenous - both living in the shadow of the past. 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
Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea
30 April - 9 May 2025
The Other Australian Cinema- 1890s to now ,Curated by Guest Cinephile Adrian Martin
Synopsis
A meditation on the global rise of the far-right, war and the nuclear threat which explores links between patriarchal power, the environmental crisis, racism and colonisation and pays tribute to the life affirming power of resistance.
See: https://www.margotnash.com/undercurrents
See: Press Kit
Distributed by Ronin Films, Canberra.
Stream On Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/undercurrentsmop
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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