Derek Brown

Películas

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
Production Design
A delightful DVD of Prokofiev's universally beloved and popular "musical tale," brought to life by human actors in a fairytale world inhabited by Muppet-like characters. Pop star Sting (The Police) lends his voice to a Sting puppet for the witty, enlightening commentary that guides the viewer through this charming suite.
La radio pirata
Production Design
Londres, 1977. Chris y Caz llevan una radio pirata que emite soul y funk. Alguien asesina a su amigo TJ, que es homosexual, y empiezan a investigar a Chris y a su novia como sospechosos. Por otro lado, Caz entabla una relación con un punk llamado Billibud, que destapa todo un conflicto de racismo y homofobia. Young Soul Rebels, thriller y drama social a su vez, refleja el hervidero de subculturas, razas y opciones sexuales del Londres de los años previos a la era Thatcher.
The Garden
Production Design
Interpretación personal de la pasión de Cristo a través de la mirada de Jarman. Dos amantes son humillados, arrestados y torturados en este collage no lineal que expresa las profundas y más personales emociones del director.
Looking for Langston
Art Direction
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Perfect Image?
Art Direction
Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.
Dreaming Rivers
Art Direction
A bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration. Miss T., from the Caribbean, lives alone in her one-room apartment, her children and husband having left her to pursue new dreams. When she dies her family and friends gather at her wake. The tapestry of words that interweave the drama convey the fragments of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
Ostia
Production Designer
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 murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.
Ostia
Set Decoration
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 murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.
Ostia
Producer
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 murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.