Derek Jarman Movies

A shadowy, sharply-dressed spokesman for the occult, chaos-magic fellowship and network The Temple of Psychic Youth reads a brief message.

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

Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? is an essential document of LGBTQ London that was unseen until 2014, 30 years after it was originally...

The Devil’s at the Elgin is Jarman’s reworking of the film he designed for Ken Russell. Filmed off the screen at the Elgin Cinema,...

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

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...

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

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.

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

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman enlivens urban surrounding with the presence of a human being.

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

Arms outstretched, a masked god stands on a clifftop surveying the rocks below and sees a sailor lying drowned in a rockpool, while a mermaid makes...

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...

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.