We Aim to Please

Open City Documentary Festival 2023

With anarchic irreverence, Robin Laurie and Margot Nash assail the conventions that govern the representation of women’s bodies and propose a radical alternative. Made with a $1,300 grant from the Australian Experimental Film Fund, We Aim to Please took shape intermittently over one year, when the filmmakers could borrow equipment and find time to work alongside their other commitments. In response to the expectation that women exist solely to satisfy male desire, the film offers visually striking images of female friendship and bodily autonomy. Jettisoning norms of avant-garde seriousness, Laurie and Nash embrace humour as a feminist weapon.