In the 1970s, Nash began her filmmaker career. She was inspired by filmmakers like
Maya Deren,
Jean-Luc Godard and the American feminist group W.I.T.C.H.E.S. (
Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell). Together, with performance partner Robin Laurie, she created the art group AS IF, which stood for Anarcho-Surrealist Insurrectionary Feminists, and wrote a feminist manifesto.
In 2017, We Aim To Please'' was re-screened at the 2017
Sydney Film Festival, after being digitally restored by the
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) In 1982, Nash was the editor of feature length documentary
For Love or Money about the history of women's working lives in Australia. The film utilizes a collection of clips including footage from home movies and newsreels to create a cohesive picture of working life. The film was included in the 1986
Sundance Film Festival and the 1991
Cinéma Du Reel festival. In 1989, she directed an experimental short film
Shadow Panic (1989), which was nominated for an
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Experimental Film In 1994, Nash wrote and directed
Vacant Possession, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 1995. Nash has said
Vacant Possession "re-created some images from [her] childhood" and that she based the father in the film on her own dad.
Vacant Possession was restored and re-screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2023. From 1996 to 2001 Nash led a series of documentary workshops in the Pacific for Indigenous filmmakers and Pacific island women. In 2005, Nash directed the feature film
Call Me Mum, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival. In 2012, she began a 14 week program as Filmmaker in Residence at Zürich University of the Arts and began working on a personal documentary which would go on to become
The Silences. In 2015, after three years of work,
The Silences was released. The film is an autobiographic look into her family's history and her parents' mental illness as it affected her childhood. In 2016, the Melbourne Cinémathèque hosted a retrospective of Nash's work, highlighting her feminist work and connection to the 1970s Melbourne theatre scene. In 2023, her short film
Undercurrents: Meditations on Power (2023) had its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and its international premiere at the
Warsaw Film Festival. == Filmography ==