Derek Jarman - Moving Pictures of a Painter

Home Movies, Super 8 Films and Other Small Gestures

Martin Frey, Michael Wetzel

• Publisher: Martin Frey
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9783200044951
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs

The English painter, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman (1942–1994) is mainly known
for his work in the medium of film, but he always saw himself primarily as a painter.
In this study of his lesser known home movies, Super 8 films and the ‘cinema of small
gestures’ that Jarman developed out of them, Martin Frey discusses numerous Super 8
films as well as the films THE LAST OF ENGLAND, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN and
THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION. He examines Jarman’s filming techniques and way of
working and also analyses influences from the fields of painting and literature, such as
Allen Ginsberg, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney and Yves Klein.
For Jarman, life and work represented an indivisible unity. Numerous autobiographical
elements from his works are thus considered in this volume: his repressed childhood and
adolescence in post-war England, his coming out and the liberated life of the seventies,
his struggle against the unequal treatment of homosexuals during the Thatcher era, his
dealing with his own HIV infection and finally his personal commitment to fighting
discrimination against people who are HIV-positive or who have already developed Aids.

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Imprint

First English edition:

Copyright © 2016 by Martin Frey, Vienna

Title of the original German edition:

Derek Jarman - Bewegte Bilder eines Malers

Home Movies, Super-8-Filme und andere kleine Gesten

First published edition:

Copyright © 2008 by Martin Frey, Vienna

Cover design and typesetting:

Copyright © 2016 by freyprojects, Vienna

Book interior layout:

© 2016 by freyprojects,Vienna / Joel Friedlander, San Francisco

Translation into English:

Michael Wetzel, Berlin

Printed and published by

Ingram Content Group Inc. – La Vergne, Tennessee

Cover illustrations:

Derek Jarman, Sightless, 1993 © Estate of Derek Jarman. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates

Stills from the film Journey to Avebury, Derek Jarman, 1973 Derek Jarman 1992 courtesy. © LUMA Foundation

Photo page 2:

Derek Jarman, Berlin, 1988. © Photo: Ekko von Schwichow

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016904674

Derek Jarman – Moving Pictures of a Painter / Martin Frey. —1st Engl. ed.

ISBN 978-3-200-04495-1

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Childhood Images

War and Disciplining

Tabooed Sexuality

Images of Childhood in The Last of England:

‘There’s no place like the HOME movie’

Home-Movie Scenes in The Last of England

Representative Terror

The Strategy of the Autobiographical and the Strategy

of Naming – Painting as Self-Defence

3. Go West! Influences from Painting and Literature

Beat Power

Allen Ginsberg

A Finger in the Fishes Mouth

Slade School of Fine Art

The American Dream

Parallels to Rauschenberg

Painting It Out: David Hockney

Physi...

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