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Margot Nash and her mother Ethel.

How did you come to make The Silences?

I wrote it as a feature drama. The story was something I really wanted to tell. I had done two feature dramas, so I wrote a script, but it was really expensive and it was really hard to get made and I just put it away. [But] It just wouldn't go away. It was this thing that kept nagging at me. I thought: can I tell it as a documentary? I got a filmmaker residency in Zurich in 2012. It was a fourteen week paid residency where I could work on a project. I had to give some masterclasses but I had a lot of time. I suddenly had this brainwave. I've been making films since the 1970's, and I've often drawn on my story to create images or construct characters. I'd literally re-created some images from my...

The Silences, a documentary from Australian filmmaker Margot Nash, will run in Australian cinemas next month..

The film debuted at last year's Miff and also screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in October..

Drawing upon a wealth of photographs, letters, oral histories, documentary footage and clips from Nash.s previous work, the film is described as "a mother.s story of lost opportunities and grief; a father.s story of work, mental illness and war; and a daughter.s exploration of early childhood and the 'silences' of the past that resonate in the present".

Nash's credits include the experimental shorts Shadow Panic (1989) and We Aim To Please (1976), the feature documentary For Love Or Money (1983) and the feature dramas Vacant Possession (1994) and Call Me Mum (2005)..

In 2012 Nash was filmmaker in residence at Zürich University of the Arts, where she began developing The Silences, and.is currently a senior lecturer in the...