After Hours

A film by Jane Campion

1984 | 26 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 99362

SYNOPSIS

A confronting and realistic short drama by Academy Award-winning director, Jane Campion, about sexual harassment in the office. A young office worker alleges her boss sexually harassed her when she worked late at his request. She loses her job as a result of the claim. The investigator for the case finds it difficult to gather evidence from the tight-lipped and uncooperative office workers. Delicately drawn, AFTER HOURS raises important questions about discrimination, sexual harassment, gender relations and the interpretation of events.

PRESS

"*** Recommended for discussion groups."

Video Rating Guide for Libraries

"Highly recommended for tactfully stimulating discussion on harassment issues."

Library Journal

ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)

Jane Campion

New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter Jane Campion is one of cinema’s most notable filmmakers. She is the first woman to receive two Oscar nominations for Best Director – the first of which was in 1994 for THE PIANO, and the second of which she also won in 2022 for THE POWER OF THE DOG. She was also the first woman director to receive the coveted Palme d’or at Cannes for THE PIANO in 1993 and went on to win Best Screenplay. In 2021, she was honored with the prestigious Prix Lumière Award at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France.

Jane studied anthropology at Victoria University in Wellington and then painting at London’s Chelsea School of Arts and the Sydney College of the Arts before moving to film in the early 1980s, while studying at the Australian Film and Television School. Her first short film, PEEL (1982), winner of the Short Film Palme d’or in 1986 in Cannes, was followed in 1989 by SWEETIE, her first feature film, and, a year later, by AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE about New Zealand author Janet Frame. Subsequent to the multi-award-winning THE PIANO were THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1996); HOLY SMOKE (1999), currently being adapted for the stage; IN THE CUT (2003) and BRIGHT STAR presented in Competition at Cannes, in 2009. Campion has recently won remarkable public and critical acclaim with a television series, TOP OF THE LAKE. (03/22)

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