UNDERCURRENTS - more international film festivals!
13 January 2025
UNDERCURRENTS: meditations on power, a film by Margot Nash has been officially selected to screen (with Margot Nash's feature, VACANT POSSESSION) at the Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea. UNDERCURRENTS also screened recently at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, March 27-31, in Palm Springs. The film is a poetic essay documentary about the undercurrents of history playing out in the present: a 'song' for the dark times about repression and resistance.
Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker's archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a meditation on the global rise of the far-right, war and the nuclear threat. It explores links between patriarchal power, the environmental crisis, racism and colonisation and pays tribute to the life affirming power of resistance.
"Powerful, lyrical, and evocative. A poignant visual meditation on what is wrong and unjust in the world."
- Larissa Behrendt, Indigenous Filmmaker & Broadcaster
"Undercurrents is a dazzling montage of the intensely personal and the urgently political – a lightning bolt of hope for our bleak times. Margot Nash, using the rich language of cinema, illuminates the collective psyche and soul."
- Adrian Martin, film critic, author of Mysteries of Cinema
VIEW TRAILER HERE: vimeo.com/1008305397
Producer, Director, Editor: Margot Nash
Sound mix, online and colour grade: Michael Gissing, Digital City Studios
Narration recording: Luke Bacon
Narrated by: Margot Nash
Archival Restorations: Ray Argall, Piccolo Films
Music: Selected music from Shadow Panic, composer Elizabeth Drake; selected music from Vacant Possession, composer Alistair Jones
© 2023, As If Productions
For further information, to order DVDs or digital files, or to access the film on Vimeo on Demand, see www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/18720.html