Jane Campion: Passionless Moments
Women Make Movies • 12m
Directed by Jane Campion • Drama • 1983 • 13 minutes
Winner of the Best Experimental Film at the Australian Film Awards, PASSIONLESS MOMENTS follows an omniscient narrator retelling of a series of brief, impressionistic vignettes around a neighborhood in Sydney.
“A structurally playful and surreal look at what can only be described as a family road trip from hell, it’s a masterpiece of stylized ennui.” —Vulture
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