ON A PERSONAL NOTE: As the EasterPassover Holiday is upon us, I give thanks for another day being alive. I give thanks for the health of my father and my circle of family and friends. I give thanks by sending notes in the mail, by remaining still and methodical and mindful about everything I do, and I give through quiet meditation and prayer. Recently, I have partnered with a pianist (Racqui Borromeo) to create the music for the videos/vignettes that I’ll be sharing as part of THE DOT PROJECT (Coronavirus Project #2). Because of our collaborative reunion, I have been listening to a range of music from the 30’s and 40’s. But in my search for music styles, I recently found the soundtrack from the film THE PIANO by Jane Campion and in listening, I was still and I was grateful…for the music and for my friend, Racqui, who is a music genius, in her own right. So, I celebrate JANE CHAMPION’s brilliance and I celebrate Racqui’s spirit of giving. MUSIC heals and shifts the paradigm, (whatever that may be), always for the better.
INFO ABOUT JANE CAMPION & THE PIANO
Australian director and screenwriter Jane Campion (born 1954) created a number of films with strong female protagonists starting in the late 1980s. Among the best known of her works was the Academy-award-winning film The Piano (1993). ... Her father was a theater director and her mother was an actress.
Though The Piano began with some development money from the Australian Film Commission, the film was Campion's first big-budget production, financed with French money. Campion had been working on the script since 1984, and she had long wanted to do a story about the colonial days of New Zealand.
Set in 1850, The Piano focuses on a mute Scottish woman named Ada, who does not speak only because she chooses not to. Her only means of communication is her piano. She has an illegitimate, young daughter, who is just as free-spirited as her mother. Ada enters into an arranged marriage with a New Zealander and moves to that country. Her new husband, Stewart, is a farmer who will not take the piano to their new home. He sells it to a man, Baines, who lives with the natives. Baines offers to give the piano back to Ada if she teaches him to play. Ada and Baines eventually become lovers, and after several plot turns, Ada leaves her husband for him.
The Piano was a huge international hit. It won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Campion was the first female director to win that award. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for best director.
JANE CAMPION QUOTE
“I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.”
MY WISH FOR YOU TODAY
I WISH YOU A MOMENT OF UNBRIDLED PLAY!
