MARGOT NASH
As If Productions
SCREENINGS
Vacant Possession a film by Margot Nash 94 min 1994
Newly restored
Screening 19 October 2025 St Tropez Cinema des Antipodes
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
The Brussels International Women's Film Festival
7-15 Oct 2025 will screen the restorations of:
We Aim to Please and Vacant Possession in
Retrospective – Traces and Horizons: The Legacies of Maldoror, Mangini and Nash
We Aim To Please (Robin Laurie & Margot Nash, 1976)
Screening 5:30pm Thursday 24 July 2025 at The Rizzo UTS
The personal is political: 1970s–80s Australian women & queer filmmakers in focus.
"These curated film programs spotlight groundbreaking films from 1970s–80s Australia - developing independent cinema as a radical tool to challenge social structures, gender myths, and systems of power." The programs are part of Elsie (and Minnie): a film, and exhibition of new work, by video artist, Zanny Begg, reflecting on the origins of the women’s refuge movement in Australia and the ongoing crisis of gendered violence today.
Vacant Possession
a film by Margot Nash 94 min 1994
Screening on SBS On Demand and NITV as part of NAIDOC week.
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.
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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