Most Popular Derek Jarman Trailers
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01 February 1978
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
26 March 1993
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language.
19 August 1993
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
27 June 1972
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
01 January 1976
An experimental short by Derek Jarman visually represents a crumbling barn.
16 July 1971
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu.
23 August 1987
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose.
13 September 1979
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples.
01 January 1984
In the early 1980s, Jarman struggled to get feature film projects off the ground and invested his energies in different fields, including music videos.
11 November 2011
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World.
27 May 1987
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg.
31 December 1987
Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
01 January 1973
A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture.
15 February 1985
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape.
07 December 1992
Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me.
21 January 2024
A lonely glassed shy teenage boy makes several amusing and charming attempts to declare his love for a girl, carrying a bouquet of flowers with him.
06 January 1989
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches.
01 November 1978
In 70s Great Britain, a gay teacher is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.
18 October 1991
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 nobility.
01 February 1981
'The Shadow of the Sun' draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film.
19 February 2008
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist.
01 January 1983
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema.
01 January 1973
The film, shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera.
01 January 1989
A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.
01 June 1976
A stop-motion film showing Jarman and several other occupants vandalizing an apartment from which they have just been evicted.
01 October 1993
In this revealing documentary, Ken McMullen creates an elegant portrait of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, based on an interview conducted by John Cartwright.
06 September 1990
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 a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them.
27 May 1987
Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise (1900) features Aimée Delamain as an aging opera singer taking her final bow and recalling a love affair from her youth.
31 December 1981
An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.
25 January 1991
A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and friends.
06 June 1974
A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods.
01 January 1986
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine.
09 June 1994
In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone.
12 March 1988
An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan.
05 March 1994
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
24 December 1993
Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.
01 January 1975
Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.
01 October 1984
Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain.
01 January 1986
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson’s Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski.
14 May 1981
Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
02 May 2020
A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repertoire of the Lindsay Kemp Company's shows, from the end of the 70s to the 90s.
01 January 1973
Experimental short overlays footage of buildings and fields with that of a spiral galaxy.
01 January 1973
Super 8 film by Derek Jarman
29 August 1986
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
22 September 2024
An ode to Derek Jarman, who, while grappling with death and the loss of his sight, began to see the world through a blue-tinted haze, a reflection of his struggle and medication.
17 December 1976
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs.
01 January 1971
A silent short movie, is a literal journey that we can experience. We are being taken to Avebury and given the chance to admire it for 10 minutes.
01 January 1972
A short experimental film by Derek Jarman.
01 January 1977
An experimental short film by Derek Jarman cuts together disparate footage.
01 January 1971
An experimental film by Derek Jarman that captures the decay of an urban environment.
01 January 1971
Short film made on Bankside featuring, as the electric fairy, a "young man with curly blonde hair, a star on his forehead and stars on his tunic, headphones, jewels and carmine lips".
01 January 1977
This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee.
01 January 1974
Super 8 short film by Derek Jarman, shot on Fire Island in New York.
01 January 1973
In this experimental short, four naked men are touched by death.
01 January 1982
A shadowy, sharply-dressed spokesman for the occult, chaos-magic fellowship and network The Temple of Psychic Youth reads a brief message.
01 November 1993
Derek Jarman discusses his film and visual art work in this experimental conversation film.