Jane Campion’s Shorts: 1982-2007
The short films in this program, which span 1982 to 2007, reflect images, motifs, and themes that persist in Campion’s work, including her playing with genre and her abiding interest in the stories of women.
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
Australia, 1982, 9m
A father, his son, and sister grow increasingly hostile toward one another after an orange peel is tossed out a car window. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for Best Short Film in 1986.
Passionless Moments
Australia, 1983, 13m
An omniscient narrator recounts a series of brief, droll vignettes around a neighborhood in Sydney.
A Girl’s Own Story
Australia, 1984, 27m
Campion’s final student film follows the disquieting familial and social encounters of three adolescent girls—Pam, Stella, and Gloria—in 1960s Australia.
The Water Diary
Australia/France, 2006, 18m
Produced for the 2008 anthology film 8 about the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals, The Water Diary is a mystical vision of a family living through a drought in the Australian outback.
The Lady Bug
France, 2007, 3m
A woman dressed like an insect tries to dance while a cleaning man tries to kill her. Made for the collective film To Each His Own Cinema to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive, Australia.
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