Female Director Zhang Aijia’s Expression Of Film Art

Having being singer,actress,director,meanwhile producer,Zhang Aijia has stepped into nearly every field in all aspects.Probably the transformation of self-identity and life experience are the very reason which generates her unique style as a female director.Ever since the 1970 S,Zhang Aijia has witnessed the transition of Chinese film.Acting as both a newcomer in Hong Kong’s New Wave Cinema Movement,and a pioneer in the New Film Movement in Taiwan,the pace of Zhang Aijia is paralleled with the rise of the fifth-generation directors in mainland China.Traveling back and forth between mainland China,Hong Kong and Taiwan,she seeks for differentiations in humanities backgrounds,perceives characteristics of the times,and exchange of needed goods.Undoubtedly,she injects incomparable vitality into Chinese-language films.Having stepped into the middle ages,Zhang Aijia is still the frontier of the Chinese-language film circle.Her films featuring delicate viewpoint and unique art techniques vividly express her unstoppable exploration about female thinking.Different from the contemporary renowned female directors like Xu Anhua and Li Shaohong,there is no grand historical story,passionate emotional catharsis and sense of mission in her 14 directors’ works.Zhang Aijia has a preference of ordinary protagonists,normal stories,via plain emotion to indicate the touched life change.As a female director,she creates different female characters in the film,telling the eternal feminine topic of interculturalism in a film language with a vague regional color.Currently,academic research on Zhang Aijia’s films only focus on the limited popular case.This article will grasp the overall film pattern of Zhang Aijia to analyze and summarize the characteristics of Zhang’s films from works in different periods,thus deepening the understanding of Zhang Aijia’s films,it can also provide some inspiration and reference for the creation of subsequent female directors.