Kangping was born in a drama family in New Zealand. His mother is a playwright and actress, and his father is a drama director. Growing up in such a family, Kangping naturally threw herself into the arms of art. In the 1970s, she completed the transformation from architectural art and visual art to film, and finally entered the Australian film and television school with an excellent short film. After graduation, she was active in short film shooting and won the best short film award at Cannes Film Festival.
1985, Kang Ping directed the TV series Two Friends, which unfolded the experience of a pair of good friends and the changes of their friendship in flashback. Four years later, she released Sweet Sisters, and her strong black comedy style caused a polarized reaction. The Angel at My Desk was originally a mini-drama of New Zealand TV, which was condensed into a movie and described the growth path of a female writer who was wrongly diagnosed as mentally ill. Kangping did not fall into the stereotype that "genius works hard in adversity". She adopted a simple but not overly simplistic way, mixing tragedy, comedy, naturalism and surrealism, without any emotional sincerity, and spread out a woman's mental journey of self-knowledge and self-development. The film won a special prize from the jury of Venice Film Festival.
1993' s piano lesson pushed Kangping to a peak, but the following "Portrait of a Lady" and "Holy Smoke" failed to surpass the piano lesson, although the two films were still highly stylized, focusing on how women handled the relationship with the surrounding society.
From "The Angel at My Desk" to "Piano Class" to her new movie, jane campion has been tirelessly talking about the growth and transformation of women, the rebirth brought by the awakening of desire, and she constantly thinks about how women can express themselves in a patriarchal society. Her series of works have become an important part of women's writing.
Jane campion, a female director, has been regarded as the representative of "female film" directors since A Piano Farewell. However, Naked Cut in 2003 is a departure from the aesthetic style in A Farewell to the Piano, which shows a woman's inner world through a black murder case. I don't know who can creatively put
Jane campion's Naked Scissors was inspired by film noir in 1970s, and movies such as Taxi Driver and French Drug Trafficking Network can be seen. However, how to make such a female film with a crime theme? In our usual movie-watching experience, the traditional detective suspense film mode is roughly like this: women generally become direct or indirect victims in the film, while the wise male detective in SHEN WOO appears in time, and pushes the story forward step by step through layers of reasoning, and finally the truth comes out. In the traditional context, Bourdieu's so-called "right to speak" is in the hands of men, that is to say, men are in an absolute dominant position in the whole story, and the audience's perspective and truth are gradually revealed with the actions of the protagonist, that is, he arrives at every crime scene and grasps all the evidence, and then the audience's logical thinking is based on the clues he has.