The English painter; film-maker and writer Derek Jarman (1942ndash;1994) is mainly knownfor 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 lsquo;cinema of smallgesturesrsquo; that Jarman developed out of them; Martin Frey discusses numerous Super 8films as well as the films THE LAST OF ENGLAND; IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN andTHE ANGELIC CONVERSATION. He examines Jarmanrsquo;s filming techniques and way ofworking and also analyses influences from the fields of painting and literature; such asAllen Ginsberg; Robert Rauschenberg; David Hockney and Yves Klein.For Jarman; life and work represented an indivisible unity. Numerous autobiographicalelements from his works are thus considered in this volume: his repressed childhood andadolescence 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; hisdealing with his own HIV infection and finally his personal commitment to fightingdiscrimination against people who are HIV-positive or who have already developed Aids.http://www.derek-jarman.info/
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