Derek Jarman Movies

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...

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

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman

An experimental film by Derek Jarman in which male subjects are bathed in light.

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...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite...

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

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.

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

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...

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman includes images of a man combing his hair, death reflected in the mirror and various burning objects.

Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise (1900) features Aimée...

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

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,...

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

Experimental short film