Derek Jarman Movies

A tapestry of colour and movement made from twelve reels of all the oddbits, fragments and diary films compiled between 1972 and 1983 that...

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman the depicts the crush of flesh at an art-world event.

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,...

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman cuts together disparate footage.

This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee. Jarman often showed his films silent or...

Shot 1988 by Derek Jarman, completed for the exhibition Tilda Swinton: Ongoing at Eye Filmmuseum

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....

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen is a three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.

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.

In the early 1980s, Jarman struggled to get feature film projects off the ground and invested his energies in different fields, including music...

A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.

A stop-motion film showing Jarman and several other occupants vandalizing an apartment from which they have just been evicted.

Derek Jarman discusses his film and visual art work in this experimental conversation film.

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...

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...

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...

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an order of gay male 'nuns', founded in San Francisco in the late 1970s with a goal to "expiate all stigmatic...