Derek Jarman Movies

An elegy on the death of the film-maker's mother. Fragments from dreams, nightmares and memories combine with natural sound and landscape in this...

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, July 1989 on their MCMLXXXIX Tour.

A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

The Devil’s at the Elgin is Jarman’s reworking of the film he designed for Ken Russell. Filmed off the screen at the Elgin Cinema,...

Abstract images of figures moving about a room. Filmed from a video monitor in Super 8 during a rehearsal of a RADA production of Beckett's "Waiting...

A shadowy, sharply-dressed spokesman for the occult, chaos-magic fellowship and network The Temple of Psychic Youth reads a brief message.

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen is a three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.

Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the...

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman

An ode to Derek Jarman, who, while grappling with death and the loss of his sight, began to see the world through a blue-tinted haze, a reflection of...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite...

Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? is an essential document of LGBTQ London that was unseen until 2014, 30 years after it was originally...

Derek Jarman discusses his film and visual art work in this experimental conversation film.

Super 8 short film by Derek Jarman, shot on Fire Island in New York.

A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.

A stop-motion film showing Jarman and several other occupants vandalizing an apartment from which they have just been evicted.

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman enlivens urban surrounding with the presence of a human being.

In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of...

Experimental short overlays footage of buildings and fields with that of a spiral galaxy.