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	Derek Jarman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jarman was born in Northwood, Middlesex, and from 1960 studied at King's College London.
		Jarman's first films were experimental super 8mm shorts, a form he never entirely abandoned, and later developed further (in his films Imagining October (1984), The Angelic Conversation (1985), The Last Of England (1987) and The Garden (1990)) as a parallel to his narrative work.
		Jarman deserves significant credit for his work in creating and expanding the fledgling form of 'the pop video' in England, and as a forthright and prominent gay rights activist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Jarman (800 words)

	Derek Jarman: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Derek Jarman (January 31 1942 - February 19 1994) was a British (The people of Great Britain) film director (The person who directs the making of a film), stage designer, artist (A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination), and writer (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)).
		Jarman was born in Northwood (additional info and facts about Northwood), Middlesex (additional info and facts about Middlesex), and from 1960 studied at King's College London (additional info and facts about King's College London).
		Jarman's early Super-8mm work has been included on some of the DVD (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set) releases of his films.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/derek_jarman.htm (852 words)

	Saint Derek Jarman Shrine
		Derek was a gay/queer film maker, set designer and writer, whose life expressed a fierce desire for a world where human lives weren't deformed by homophobia, poverty (including artistic poverty), 'respectability', and the policing of gender identity.
		Saint Derek was born on 31st January 1942, son of a RAF officer of Kiwi extraction.
		Derek's progress towards sainthood was at times slow, he only slowly grew to express his sexuality happily, given the silence, fear and prejudice about same-sex love that characterised the 'fifties in middle class England.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /stevecarr/shrine.htm (650 words)

	BBC - Kent News - Feature - Derek Jarman - Prospect Cottage
		Jarman was the world’s leading gay filmmaker of his day, was an inspiration to a generation.
		Derek Jarman's last paintings - full of rage, joy, and an unquenchable optimism despite his treatment for Aids - have been assembled to celebrate the reopening of the Metropole arts centre at Folkestone, Kent.
		Derek Jarman died of complications from AIDS on February 19, 1994.
	www.bbc.co.uk /kent/news/features/jarman.shtml (449 words)

	Tate Britain \| Past Exhibitions \| Art of the Garden
		Derek Jarman was drawn to Dungeness by its desolate character; he used it as the setting for his film The Last of England, an allegory on the social and sexual inequalities in England under Thatcherism.
		Jarman was a relatively inexperienced gardener, and given the inhospitable conditions at Dungeness he initially had little hope of establishing a garden.
		Jarman’s garden featured in his 1989 film War Requiem, and in the following year was the focal point of The Garden, ‘a parable about the cruel and unnecessary perversion of innocence’ where it figured both as the Garden of Eden and the garden at Gethsemane.
	www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/artofthegarden/artistsgardens_jarman.htm (240 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Jarman, Derek
		As a child Derek Jarman was brought up in RAF camps in Britain and as a boy he lived for some time in Pakistan and in Italy.
		Jarman's bleakness of mood was heightened further by the death, in 1978, of his adored mother after a very long illness, and that of his father in 1987.
		Jarman's persona now is that of the gay man who fights back, and who turns back upon his tormentors the hatred and unreason which is directed at gay men.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2347 (3802 words)

	Derek Jarman
		Derek Jarman was one of the most innovative British filmmakers of his generation.
		For Jarman, the most compelling of these was undoubtedly the celebration of gay culture and the battle for gay rights--in which he was prominent until his death.
		December 1986 Derek Jarman was diagnosed as HIV positive, and he revealed his condition a month later.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/j/jarman_derek.htm (720 words)

	Derek Jarman's Edward II
		Derek Jarman’s 1991 film, Edward II, an interpretation of a Christopher Marlowe play written nearly four hundred years ago about an English monarch who lived three centuries earlier, incorporates Jarman seductive, anachronistic, and often controversial cinematic imagery while maintaining elements of Marlowe's original intent.
		Jarman creates a work of many layers which, in part, functions outside the conventions of traditional cinema while working from within it.
		I would argue that while Jarman's fore fronting of the gay-love-story thread of the narrative was a political choice, attempting to both expand cinematographic representation and raise historical questions, the film addressed issues beyond sexual politics.
	pages.emerson.edu /organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1994-05/edward.htm (1489 words)

	Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
		Proudly and openly gay, Jarman shared news of his HIV infection with his public and incorporated his subsequent battles with AIDS into his work, particularly in The Garden (1990) and Blue (1993).
		Excavating and reclaiming suppressed gay history was an ongoing project that informed his several unconventional biopics: SEBASTIANE (1975), Jarman's sun-drenched directorial debut about the martyred Christian saint; the unusually accessible and slyly anachronistic Caravaggio (1986); the raw and angry modern dress version of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (1991); and the stark and theatrical Wittgenstein (1993).
		Jarman's most important performer was the prodigiously talented Tilda Swinton, whose intensity and unusual beauty graced THE LAST OF ENGLAND, WAR REQUIEM, THE GARDEN, EDWARD II, WITTGENSTEIN, BLUE and Jarman's segment of Aria (1988).
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/1211/derekjarman.html (981 words)

	Derek Jarman
		Jarman, who died of AIDS in February 1994, had been battling the disease for six years at the time of making the film.
		Jarman sees the darkly handsome Caravaggio as a passionate man with a liking for "rough trade." An elegant tale centering around both the creative process and the touching homoerotic love story of the two men.
		While director Derek Jarman fitfully sleeps in his garden, his cryptic dreams are played out in their fullest, queerest glory.
	www.queertheory.com /film/jarman_derek_films.htm (684 words)

	The Edge features: Derek Jarman: An Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jarman fought to cram into that last handful of years almost half a lifetime's work, producing as a consequence one of the most formidable and honest back catalogues of any British artist.
		Derek Jarman died, aged 52, two days before Parliament failed to reduce the age of consent for gay men to 16.
		Derek Jarman, born January 31, 1942; died February 19, 1994.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /features/derekjarman.htm (343 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Derek Jarman's Garden: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Derek Jarman created his own garden in the flat, bleak expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent.
		Derek Jarman, the filmmaker and sometime Artist, was a prolific creator of things rich and strange: a prime example of which is his garden.
		Derek Jarman, british film-maker, artist and activist, found solace in his garden in Dungeness during his final years and this book reflects that passion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0500016569 (573 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Jarman, Derek
		In both his films and his writings, Derek Jarman's explicit project was to celebrate gay sexuality and imagine a place for it in English culture.
		Jarman was born in Northwood, England, into a middle-class, Royal Air Force family, and his early life was spent on military bases and at public school.
		With the acquisition of a Super 8 camera in 1970, Jarman began recording the details of his own life and discovered the autobiographical subject that was to become the driving force of all of his subsequent films and books.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/jarman_d.html (853 words)

	Amazon.com: Derek Jarman : A Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though openly gay, Jarman was on the fringes of the gay movement until his diagnosis with AIDS in 1987, when he began vigorously to protest antigay and AIDS policies in the U.K., both on the streets and in his work.
		Jarman's dedication to both his films and his controversial politics (he attacked Ian McKellen for accepting a knighthood from an antigay government) makes for lively reading, and reveals as much about the impact of the artist's world upon his work as it does about his effect on that world.
		Jarman had many critics, both to his work and his activism, but he never buckled to them and spoke out any time he felt an injustice was being served.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585670669?v=glance (938 words)

	Derek Jarman
		The 1989 film by Derek Jarman is a cinematic visualization of Benjamin Britten's celebrated oratorio, using live action and documentary footage from the whole range of twentieth century wars.
		From "War Requiem," Derek Jarman has constructed a scenario without dialogue, which uses the dramatic framework of Owen's short life as a narrative spine on which to flesh out a portrayal of war in the 20th Century.
		It was directed by Derek Jarman, produced by Don Boyd and had its world theatrical premiere in London's West End in 1989.
	www.mysticfire.com /ntsc/76203/76203.html?cart=106421778325024514 (670 words)

	Blue - Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry - 1993
		Jarman's "Blue," a feature consisting entirely of a blue screen with voice-overs, has succeeded in annoying viewers with its seemingly uninventive approach to the cinematic personal narative.
		Reflecting upon his life in the face of his rapidly approaching death, Jarman's memories and meditations offer the viewer (listener, really) a window into the soul of a director who is losing the most important sense he could posses: his sight.
		Jarman, directing this film as he lost his eyesight (and what could be worse for a director?), last saw the color blue.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/1021 (990 words)

	Bookreporter.com - DEREK JARMAN: A BIOGRAPHY by Tony Peake
		From Jarman's English boyhood to his randy days as a fine artist and then filmmaker and AIDS activist, Peake offers up tiny slices of the man's history with a generous and gracious spirit, filled with love for a complicated human being who offered the planet his very soul in his work.
		Jarman was a rampant homosexual playboy at a time when it wasn't exactly in vogue.
		Jarman was a renegade whose every move reflected the place he was in his life --- he was truly a working artist.
	aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com /reviews/1585670669.asp (335 words)

	[ RaroVideo.com ] visioni:underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This may be explained by the fact that the substandard cinema of the British painter-filmmaker was a melting pot in which to continuously delve for new fusions.
		Jarman forces the viewer to adopt a certain perceptive attitude when watching his shorts, thus stimulating a reflection on the relationship between stasis and movement.
		Jarman’s suggestive alchemical symphony is dominated above all by fire, the key element upon which all the others converge: from the water sparkles that seem like snow, to the gaseous clouds in the film’s final part.
	www.rarovideo.com /eng/schede/super8vol2.htm (750 words)

	In Search of the Miraculous: Peter Wollen on Derek Jarman's Blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jarman always had an ambivalent relationship with film and particularly, as we have seen, with television.
		Blue was the colour Jarman saw when eye-drops were put in his eyes in the hope of alleviating his blindness.
		In this emergency situation, Jarman turned to Yves Klein as Klein had turned to Saint Rita, 'saint of impossible and hopeless causes', to show the way forward, beyond images, beyond representation.
	insearch.typepad.com /notes/2004/04/peter_wollen_on.html (1163 words)

	Dillon, Derek Jarman and Lyric Film, University of Texas Press
		Derek Jarman was the most important independent filmmaker in England during the 1980s.
		Steven Dillon looks at Jarman and other directors working in a similar vein to establish how lyric films are composed through the use of visual imagery and actual poetry.
		He then traces Jarman's use of imagery (notably mirrors and the sea) in his films and discusses in detail the relationship between cinematic representations and sexual identity.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/dilder.html (278 words)

	Derek Jarman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Derek Jarman was, in my opinion, one of the most talented artists of the the last decades of the 20th Century.
		It was not a film of which Derek was proud, but I think he was wrong.
		One of my regrets is that it could not have been the subject of a TV 'make over' programme; Derek would have made mincemeat of the presenter.
	www.yacht-judicious.co.uk /b_derekjarman.html (694 words)

	Knitting Circle Derek Jarman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		September, 1991 Derek Jarman was canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as St. Derek of Dungeness of the Order of Celluloid Knights.
		Jarman's biograph shows a man spartan in life, both physically and emotionally - a man who was ill at ease with any form of sexual expression.
		Standing in front of one of Derek Jarman's final paintings, showing at a retrospective exhibition of his painting and design work, are Keith Collins with two friends from Dungeness where Derek Jarman lived in the years upto his death.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/derekjarman.html (3399 words)

	Psychic TV -- Themes 2: A Prayer For Derek Jarman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Derek Jarman was one of the most eccentric and deeply personal film makers ever to commit his life and imaginings to celluloid (see some of his later and more readily available films Wittgenstein, Blue and his contribution to Aria).
		Genesis Orridge was a close friend of Jarman's throughout his life, and apparently worked very closely with Jarman on the films for which he supplied the music.
		"Prayer For Derek" is Orridge's homage to Derek Jarman, or as the subtitle reads: "[a] Theme expressing personal reminiscence and prayers from 1969/1993 and beyond." The theme is a highly evocative collage of sounds, and segments of ritualistic music.
	www.lastsigh.com /reviews/psychicthemes.htm (660 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Derek Jarman
		Equally at home making slyly subversive costume dramas or dreamy experimental cine-poems, Jarman was a bracing antidote to the Masterpiece Theaterization of British cinema, and, as the world’s leading gay filmmaker of his day, was an inspiration to a generation.
		Derek Jarman’s first feature, SEBASTIANE, was made in 1975 and was followed by JUBILEE, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977.
		This was a project which had taken Jarman seven years to realize but which finally was to gain him major recognition in the United States as a major innovative filmmaker.
	www.zeitgeistfilms.com /director.php?director_id=30 (425 words)

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