Derek Jarman's Home Movie Making

Super-8mm filming was centralto the late Derek Jarman's filmmaking. He saw "home movie making" asmore interesting than his features because it dealt more directly with hisexperience. Jarman used super-8mm as a type of note-taking, as a diaristic recordof his friends and activities, and integrated it into his feature-length films.Tonight we present a selection of his super-8mm films, The Devil's at the Elgin(1974, 14 mins, B&W), Gerald's Film (1975, 12 mins), Waiting for Waiting forGodot (1982, 12 mins), and his first film, Studio Bankside (1970-73, 6 mins,Color/B&W), all of which have been transferred to video. In addition, threeof Jarman's exquisite super-8mm films which he blew up to 16mm, A Journey toAvebury (1971, 5 mins, Color), Garden of Luxor (1972, 8 mins, Color), and The Artof Mirrors (1973, 5 mins, Color) will be screened, as well as the section ofJordan's Dance which Jarman incorporated into his 1978 feature fim,Jubilee.

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