Derek Jarman - The Super 8 Films - Vol. 2 ( In the Shadow of the Sun / The Art of Mirrors / Ashden's Walk on Møn / Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen / A Journey to Avebury )

Derek Jarman - The Super 8 Films - Vol. 2 (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: In the Shadow of the Sun / The Art of Mirrors / Ashden's Walk on Møn / Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen / A Journey to Avebury
Language Selections:
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1971 - 1980 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Derek Jarman

Written By:
Derek Jarman

Actors:
Karl Bowen
Graham Dowie
Christopher Hobbs
Gerald Incandela
Andrew Logan
Luciana Martínez
Lucy Su
Kevin Whitney
Francis Wishart

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***All films are Silent and Interview with James Mackay is in English with English & Italian subtitles***
In the Shadow of the Sun (1980)
A Derek Jarman film with music by Throbbing Gristle. Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema.
The Art of Mirrors (1973)
The Art of Mirrors is an abstract film made in 1973 by director, Derek Jarman. The film, shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera.
Ashden's Walk on Møn (1973)
Ashden's Walk on Møn presents another side of Jarman's filmic aesthetic, one more closely tied to his painterly practice.
Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (1973)
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. This is followed by a series of superimpositions featuring two figures crossing a Chinese style bridge in a high wind.
A Journey to Avebury (1971)
A Journey to Avebury lasts for ten minutes, and in its original state was nothing more than silent, static shots of fields, pathways, silhouetted trees, and finally the Avebury stones.

In the Shadow of the Sun (1980)
A Derek Jarman film with music by Throbbing Gristle. Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema. Actually the original material has been slowed down to a speed of 3-6 frames, then Jarman added colour effects and the pulsating, menacing score by Industrial supergroup Throbbing Gristle. The result is a piece of art not to dissimilar to Jarman's painting work in using found footage as elements of memory and mind that resemble ideas reflected in the Cabala and in C.G. Jung`s writings about an archetypical past that is hidden in everyone of us. The first, In the Shadow of the Sun (1974-80), was originally put together by Jarman himself in 1974 from re-shot Super-8 material including footage from The Art of Mirrors and Journey to Avebury, amongst several others. The film was eventually blown-up to 35mm and premiered at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival. The focus on ritual, mysticism and obscure alchemical symbolism links it with the work of Anger. However, Jarman's preference for the work of Carl Jung and the 'white' magician John Dee, is quite distinct from Anger's invocations of the 'black' magician Alistair Crowley.

The Art of Mirrors (1973)
The Art of Mirrors is an abstract film made in 1973 by director, Derek Jarman. The film, shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera. The images portrayed in the film are reminiscent of Jarman's Abstract Landscape paintings of the same period. In his diary Jarman wrote of this film, 'this is only something that could only be done on a Super 8 camera, with it's built in meters and effects.'

Ashden's Walk on Møn (1973)
Ashden's Walk on Møn presents another side of Jarman's filmic aesthetic, one more closely tied to his painterly practice. In the earlier film, ghostly images of men walking through a forest to a beach ringed by cliffs are superimposed with brilliant celestial configurations, while the later film presents a seemingly abstract shape that eventually resolves into a large reflective square set on a beach amongst sunbathing nudes.

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (1973)
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. This is followed by a series of superimpositions featuring two figures crossing a Chinese style bridge in a high wind.

A Journey to Avebury (1971)
A Journey to Avebury lasts for ten minutes, and in its original state was nothing more than silent, static shots of fields, pathways, silhouetted trees, and finally the Avebury stones. The yellow filter gives all the shots an oppressive, sulphurous cast which turns the otherwise bucolic landscape into a place of imminent apocalypse.

List of Films:
In the Shadow of the Sun (1974-81)
The Art of Mirrors (1973)
Ashden's Walk on Møn (1973)
Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (1973)
Journey to Avebury (1971)

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 25 January, 2013.

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