A poetic essay about the undercurrents of history playing out in the present. Made from reimagined/recycled clips from the filmmaker's archive, plus found materials, it links the global rise of the far right, patriarchy, racism and colonisation. An urgent song for the dark times about repression and resistance.
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Undercurrents, which Nash describes as “a song for the dark times,” is a dazzling montage of the intensely personal and the urgently political – a lightning bolt of hope in the context of our currently bleak and worsening world. The film – now even more prescient a year after it was made – addresses how “the undercurrents of history play out in the present,” especially in relation to ecology, the rise of right wing, fascist power, and the renewed threat of global nuclear disaster. To grasp these relations between present and past, Nash delves into the audiovisual archive of her own work (alongside other archival material), thereby granting her previous images and sounds a new context and meaning. Using the rich language of cinema, Nash illuminates the collective psyche and soul. (Adrian MARTIN | Film Critic)
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As If Productions | asif@netspace.net.au
Margot NASH
