Undercurrents: meditations on power

Viewer Advice: First Nations viewers are warned that the following film may contain images and voices of deceased persons; strong impact themes.

Australian filmmaker Margot Nash (We Aim to Please, MIFF 2022; Vacant Possession, MIFF 1995, 2021; The Silences, MIFF 2015) reimagines her own archival footage for this poetic essay on resistance amid instability.

Nash’s latest work is a dark, poetic meditation on history, spanning everything from First Nations peoples and WWII to the #MeToo movement and the conflict in Ukraine. Recycling footage from her archive, the revered filmmaker reflects on the global rise of the far-right, racism and colonisation, the environmental crisis, patriarchal power, war and the nuclear threat.

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Director Margot Nash will be in attendance for the screening on Sunday 6 August.