MARGOT NASH
As If Productions
Screenings
Vacant Possession - Newly Restored by Piccolo Films
a film by Margot Nash 94 min 1994
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 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.
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See: https://www.margotnash.com/vacant-possession
Also screening on SBS On Demand
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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