Margot Nash

We Aim to Please

Margot Nash, Robin Laurie

A short film about female sexuality, making the viewer aware of body image and attitudes towards it by frequent images of two naked females and close-up shots of areas that make them female. The two women discuss what makes them paranoid; fearful, doubtful and also joyful and erotic, in relation to their own bodies.

Shadow Panic

Margot Nash

Kaarin Fairfax, Robin Laurie

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.

The Silences

Margot Nash

Margot Nash

New Zealand-born Margot Nash scrutinises the memories and mementoes of her childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, and the corrosive instability of the household from which she fled as a young woman in the early 70s.

Vacant Possession

Margot Nash

Pamela Rabe, John Stanton

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.

Call Me Mum

Margot Nash

Catherine McClements, Lynette Curran

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate's Brisbane based parents, Keith and Dellmay, are planning a different kind of reunion.

For Love or Money

Margot Nash, Jeni Thornley

Noni Hazlehurst, Margot Nash

Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.

Body Work

David Caesar

Margot Nash

Death is a taboo subject but not in this stylised documentary about those who "make a living out of dead bodies".

Bread and Dripping

Margot Nash, Vic Smith

Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political struggles of the 1920's and 30's.