Derek Jarman

One of England's foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) wrote and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights...

Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. "For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." --Derek Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year...

Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his collages and tar...

From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his...

Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher TurnerGathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specific--and sometimes lesser-known--aspects of the artist's life and work, and extensive portfolios spanning his oeuvre, this volume...

The 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary masterpiece, a visual and narrative exploration of the artist and activist Derek Jarman's singular, paradisiacal garden which he tended throughout his illness, set in a most inhospitable place. "Paradise haunts gardens," writes Derek Jarman, "and it haunts...

From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little England/A Time of Hope, Neutron, and Sod 'Em, five of which have yet to...

The shockingly honest journals of the acclaimed filmmaker and gay rights activist.Author: Derek JarmanISBN-10: 0816674507ISBN-13: 9780816674503Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2010Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 285

This text is the iconoclastic and controversial filmmaker Derek Jarman's candid journals from 1989 to 1990. The journals include Jarman's love of gardening and flowers while he was growing sicker from AIDS.Author: Derek JarmanISBN-10: 081666594XISBN-13: 9780816665945Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight:...

A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace...