Nominated for Best Short Documentary

Undercurrents: meditations on power

Director: 
Margot Nash
Documentary, Experimental, Political
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19
minutes
👋 Filmmaker attending

A cautionary poem or ‘song’ for the dark times. 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 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.

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