Vacant Possession (film)

Vacant Possession
Directed by Margot Nash
Produced by John Winter
Written by Margot Nash
Starring Pamela Rabe
John Stanton
Music by Alistair Jones
Cinematography Dion Beebe
Edited by Veronika Jenet
Distributed by Wintertime Films
Release date
  • 23 May 1995 (1995-05-23) (Australia)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country Australia
Language English

Vacant Possession is a 1995 Australian drama film, directed and written by Margot Nash. The film was nominated for 5 awards at the 1995 Australian Film Institute Awards.[1]

Plot

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.[2][3]

This is a film about memory - personal and collective. To quote the director: 'the story of a house, land and two families - one white, one Aboriginal - both living in the shadow of the past'.[4] The deliberately ambiguous title could refer to the house itself, but also the history of White Australia (see Terra nullius).[5][6]

Cast

Awards

Nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Past Awards | AACTA". www.aacta.org. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  2. ↑ O'Brien, Gabrielle (March 2016). "Sensing the Past: Margot Nash's Vacant Possession". Senses of Cinema (78).
  3. ↑ "Curator's notes Vacant Possession (1994) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  4. ↑ "MIFF 2018 | Festival Archive 1952-2017". MIFF 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  5. ↑ "Vacant Possession | ACMI". 2015.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  6. ↑ "film". australiancinema.info. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
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