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Derek (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
76 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Isaac Julien

Written By:
Tilda Swinton

Actors:
Derek Jarman ..... Himself (archive footage)
Tilda Swinton ..... Narrator (voice)

Synopsis:

Derek, a fragmentary portrait of the British filmmaker, painter, set designer and writer Derek Jarman, is a cinematic scrapbook of the life and times of an iconoclast, aesthete and provocateur who died of AIDS in 1994. Assembled by the director Isaac Julien, the fragments are clustered around a poetic epistle, 'Letter to an Angel,' written by Mr. Jarman's friend Tilda Swinton and published in The Guardian in 2002. 'Derek' doesn't try to be a coherent biography. Apart from Ms. Swinton's digressive, occasionally overblown recollection, there are no sober talking heads analyzing his place in cinematic history and the British art world. Even more than a political or an artistic statement, Mr. Jarman's insistence on being himself and putting his money where he mouth was, Ms. Swinton declares, was finally a spiritual calling.

Documentary about filmmaker Derek Jarman and his work. Alongside contributions from friends and colleagues, the film uses unseen interviews, out-takes, and footage showing Jarman at work, further using home movies and images from his film scrapbooks.

About the life and work of the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman whose wholly original feature films re-imagined narrative while helping to establish a canon for Queer Cinema.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 26 March, 2009.