Derek Jarman

A collage of Derek Jarman’s super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys’ 1989 tour. This film is a series of ...

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek ...

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, ...

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of ...

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, July 1989 on their MCMLXXXIX Tour.

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to ...

During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying ...

The artist’s personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under ...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. ...

Derek Jarman’s interpretation of the aria ‘Depuis le jour’ from the final act of Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise ...

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the ...

Three promotional films by The Smiths directed with an artistic and conceptual vision by the late director Derek Jarman. The result is the ...

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly ...

A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim ...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and ...

Derek Jarman’s film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend ...

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman.

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

‘The Shadow of the Sun’ draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. ...