Caravaggio
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous...
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When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they...
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Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...
See moreThe Last of England
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 Thatcher.
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In 70s Great Britain, a gay teacher is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.
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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...
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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...
See moreThe British Guide to Showing Off
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a...
See moreCinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over...
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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...
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A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
See moreLindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repertoire of the Lindsay Kemp Company's shows...
See moreDerek
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. The...
See moreThe Yob
An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a...
See moreThe Making of ‘Sebastiane’
Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.
See moreA Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on...
See moreDead Cat
A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.
See moreBlue Again: An Ode To Derek Jarman
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...
See moreDerek Jarman: A Portrait
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...
See more21st Century Nuns
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...
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