Shadow Panic

25min 16mm experimental drama 1989

Restored to HD in 2020 using original film materials.

Written, Directed and Produced by Margot Nash

Three women's world's collide by chance. A film about internal and external states of emergency, resistence and spirit.

"I am the dreamer, the redhead, I search for hidden treasure: which fragment would yield the gold, which memory would haunt forever?"

" I am the investigator, I watch, I record, I collect evidence: little men who get rich quick, this wilful heritage, this aching land."

"I am the fool, the hothead, distracted, temporarily unavailable: in love, out of love, searching for love."

Three women, strangers to each other, yet their lives seem inexplicably linked. SHADOW PANIC is a short experimental film about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.

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FESTIVALS and SCREENINGS

2023

• Goodbye Pink Flamingo Film festival - Margot Nash Retrospective

2022

• Pioneering Women in Australian Cinema from the 80s and early 90s MOMI

Museum of the Moving Image, New York July 22 to August 14

• Unlearning Australia - Represented in 'It Was About Opening The Very Notion That There Was a Particular Persepective' by Alex Martinus Roe Artspace and Seoul Museum of Art Dec 14 2021- March 6 2022

2021

• Cinema Reborn Film Festival, Randwick Ritz screening with The Juniper Tree introduced by Margot Nash

• Screening as part of Feminism in Film, Mercury Cinema Adelaide in conjuction with Alex Martinus Roe exhibition Samstag Museum University of South Australia (Includes Zoom Q&A)

2017

•Cinenova London screening curated by Alex Martinus Roe

• The National - New Australian Art Represented in It Was About Opening The Very Notion That There Was a Particular Persepective by Alex Martinus Roe, AGNSW Sydney
2016

•Green Screen Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

• Between Past and Present: the films of Margot Nash Melbourne Cinematheque ACMI Melbourne

2008

• UWA Vision, Memory, Spectacle - Aust Women’s and Gender Studies Conference

1999

• Films Des Femmes Créteil FRANCE: Tribute to Aust & NZ women.

1998

• Downloading Downunder: Australian Film and New Media Amsterdam

1991

• IMAGES Toronto

1990

• Films Des Femmes Créteil, France