The Garden is Derek Jarman's most personal work so far, touching on the AIDS crisis and the issue of his own mortality. The early part of the film is dominated by the windswept landscape of the Kent coast, elemental images which are intercut with scenes of Jarman building a garden at his home in the shadow of the Dungeness nuclear power station. Slowly a narrative emerges in a series of dreamscapes and tableaux representing familiar Christian moments, as the garden becomes both Gethsemane and Eden...set against the background of contemporary Britain, examining the persecution of homosexuality through the centuries and interrogating the role of the church in the AIDS crisis. The Garden is a kaleidoscopic series of stunning and surprising images-disturbing, funny, beautiful, captivating.-Kay Armatage, Toronto Festival