19 minutes of archival ghosts that'll haunt your understanding of power.
Made from reimagined/recycled images and sounds from the filmmaker’s archive and other found materials, Undercurrents is a poetic essay documentary about the undercurrents of history playing out in the present. It is also (at its heart) about the power of resistance.
Editing
Recycled footage reanimated into urgent contemporary argument.
Direction
Nash's 40-year archive becomes living, breathing testimony.
Director
Margot Nash
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nash is a foundational figure in Australian feminist filmmaking; this continues her decades-long excavation of national memory.
The 'undercurrents' title references both hidden power structures and literal water—colonial mapping, contested waterways, environmental violence intertwined.
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