Author Margot Nash

Margot Nash

Margot Nash is a filmmaker, photographer and Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney where she taught screenwriting for 18 years and (for a brief time) Australian independent film history. During this time she raised money for and supervised the making of a digital version of In This Life’s Body in order to screen it for her class. The Master file of In This Life’s Body is held by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. Margot continues to both write and make films. See: https://www.margotnash.com

Corinne Cantrill’s In this Life’s Body – A Personal Experience

Margot Nash

July 2021

Australian Autofiction

I first saw Corinne Cantrill’s feature-length essay documentary In This Life’s Body in the old Valhalla Cinema in the Sydney suburb of Glebe. It must have been around 1985 and Corinne and her husband, Arthur, h...