MARGOT NASH
Sydney Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Photographer
As If Productions
We Aim To Please 1976 13min a film by Robin Laurie and Margot Nash
Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque on International Womens Day March 8th 2023
See: Shorts program 2
Jettisoning clichés of avant-garde seriousness, filmmakers Robin Laurie and Margot Nash embrace humour as a feminist weapon. They assail the conventions that typically govern the representation of women’s bodies, proposing a radical alternative in striking images of female friendship and corporeal autonomy.
No Master Territories: Feminist World Making and the Moving Image
Curators: Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw May 9 -July 23 2023
Anarcho Surrealist Insurrecionary Feminists ASIF film poster and magazines and film:
We Aim To Please 1976 13min a film by Robin Laurie and Margot Nash
A landmark feminist experimental film about women’s identities and desire for liberation.
Using the camera both to explore their own bodies and to express their joys, fears and longings.
Latest Publications
Nash, M. Adaptation: Essence, Originality and Radical Transformation, Chapter 6 in Creative Writing Practice - Reflections on Form and Process, Debra Adelaide and Sarah Attfield (eds) Springer, UK, 2021
Catalogue Essay and Curation
Margot Nash April 2022
Cinema Reborn: The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit 1953-1958