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Oct 1, 2020 · On September 22, 1991, Derek Jarman was “canonized” in the garden of his house at Dungeness, on a bare shingle beach overlooked by a nuclear power station at the southeasternmost corner of Britain. Enthroned in golden robes, the forty-nine-year-old filmmaker and artist, his health severely diminished by aids, smiled, his eyes half closed in ...
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Blue is a 1993 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman. It is his final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS -related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release, only being able to see in shades of blue. The film was his last testament as a film-maker ...
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Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was a legendary English artist and filmmaker, best known for his avant-garde art films and also renowned as a set designer, gardener, author and gay rights activist. Portrait of Derek Jarman. Image courtesy of Richard Heslop. Script-driven narrative was not for him: instead he favoured an organic painterly approach ...
Jarman is perhaps best known today as a pioneer of experimental film while his fusing of art and activism is especially important in the development of many queer artistic practices. Born Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman in Northwood, England, Jarman’s whakapapa connects to Aotearoa through his father Lancelot who was born in Canterbury in 1907.
