Derek Jarman Movies

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

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the...

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...

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

Three song clips by The Smiths ('The Queen is Dead', 'There is a Light that Never Goes Out' and 'Panic'), all directed with an artistic and...

A short film by Derek Jarman.

Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise (1900) features Aimée...

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

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

An experimental film by Derek Jarman that captures the decay of an urban environment.

A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods."

This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee. Jarman often showed his films silent or...

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.

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.

Experimental short film

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an order of gay male 'nuns', founded in San Francisco in the late 1970s with a goal to "expiate all stigmatic...

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

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...