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Co-presented by Film in Revolt
We Aim To Please (Laurie, Nash 1976)
Shadow Panic (Nash 1989)
Vacant Possession (Nash 1994)
95+26+13 minutes | 15+ / M | Retrospective
12.30pm, Saturday, 18 November | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Three groundbreaking works of Australian cinema from acclaimed feminist filmmaker Margot Nash, followed by a live discussion on her body of work, with Nash herself.
VACANT POSSESSION (Nash 1994)
Following her mother's death, Tessa returns to her childhood home, a house haunted by emotional secrets. But how do you return home after years away? And what's home after all... a house... a place... a family? 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.
"Often brilliantly directed - with superb cinematography from Academy Award winner Dion Beebe and a compellingly atmospheric sound track - Vacant Possession is a truly exciting piece of cinema..."
- Adrian Martin, The Age
WE AIM TO PLEASE (Laurie, Nash 1976)
A wild and unruly landmark feminist film about female sexuality, that not only touches the areas of paranoia, fear and doubt, which women experience in relation to their bodies and physical self-image, but which is also joyful, erotic and funny.
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MARGOT NASH is a New Zealand-born Australian-based filmmaker. Her directing credits include the award-winning feature dramas Vacant Possession (1994) and Call Me Mum (2005), the experimental short Shadow Panic (1989) and the feature documentary The Silences (2015). She was a co-filmmaker and editor on the landmark feminist films We Aim To Please (Robin Laurie, Margot Nash 1976) and For Love Or Money (Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver, Jeni Thornley 1983). Margot has worked as a consultant and mentor for Australian Indigenous filmmakers as well as working in the Pacific running documentary workshops for Pacific Island women television producers. In 2016 she won an Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award for the screenplay of The Silences. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. https://www.margotnash.com
Country: Australia
Year: 1994/1989/1976
Language: English
Co-presented by Film in Revolt