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Wed 13 Nov 2024
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In many ways a companion piece to The Last of England, Jarman’s first feature of the 1990s is a highly personal, almost dialogue-free film reflecting on the hostility and violence faced by gay, queer and trans people in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic. Drawing together a collage of home movies of Jarman’s cottage in Dungeness, numerous references to classical and popular culture, and a bold retelling of the Passion of the Christ featuring a gay couple in the lead role, it is one of Jarman’s most startling mediations on mortality, loss and queer politics. With Tilda Swinton and a voiceover by Michael Gough.
Followed by In the Shadow of the Sun Derek Jarman (1981) 59 mins – Unclassified 15+. Jarman alchemically combines and superimposes super 8 footage of friends shot between 1972 and 1975 and a road trip to Avebury in 1980 into an eerie, deeply atmospheric and disturbing ambient opus scored by Geneses P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Throbbing Gristle.
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