The Films of Jane Campion
Films by Jane Campion
49 minutes | Color/BW | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 99197
SYNOPSIS
The internationally acclaimed director of THE PIANO, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and SWEETIE first displayed her visual flair and dark humor in these award-winning shorts. The compilation includes:
A GIRL'S OWN STORY is about Beatlemania, the sixties and growing up. Some stories about girlhood: where family is strange, adutlhood lonely, and innocence perverse.
PASSIONLESS MOMENTS is a series of wry vignettes: Sean and Arnold Not Speaking; Scotties, Part of the Grand Design of the Universe; Angela Eats Meats, Ironing on Sunday; and others...
PEEL takes place on a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
PRESS
"A beautifully photographed, sharply drawn drama...A lovely debut which will be compared to Jane Campion's later work but will certainly live up to the comparison."
"These deceptively fragile-looking and tough-minded short films reveal familiar power plays from multiple points of view, punctuated by telling close-ups. A promising young director's take on the origins of narrative."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Passionless Moments: Best Experimental Film, American Film Institute
- A Girl's Own Story: American Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film
- Peel: Cannes, Golden Palm for Best Short Film
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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