James Mackay

Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique approach to low-budget film-making (his near-alchemical ability to turn the base components of film-making in to artistic gold, his placing of himself at the heart of all his work and his need to be part of a repertory company-type set-up). The Gospel… also promotes Derek Jarman’s importance as one of Britain's finest film-makers and acts, therefore, as a rally call to all would-be independent film-makers. This is the ’10 commandments of St. Derek ‘(who was indeed canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) on low-budget film-making.

Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker and actress, Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton respectively, have produced and narrated a film on his life whereby the use of language is perpetuated to give some type of palpable meaning to British audiences alone, and to their own personal relationship with him.

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

Instructional documentary produced in association with the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Instructional video produced following a tabloid scandal

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.

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.

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

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 conceptual vision by the late Derek Jarman. The result is the junction of the powerful lyrics and melodies by Morrissey and Marr combined with Jarman's expressive images.

El pintor Michelangelo Merisi, nacido en Caravaggio, se está muriendo lejos de su hogar. En el lecho de muerte recuerda los comienzos de su vida como pintor. El niño Michelangelo dejó su Caravaggio natal al quedar huérfano, y se traslada a Milán, donde se inicia como pintor en diferentes talleres, hasta que establece un taller propio, en la Roma de los Papas, ganándose el favor de la Iglesia, que le encarga numerosas obras. Llegan entonces la fama, el dinero, sus amores homosexuales, las intrigas políticas y religiosas, la envidia y el crimen.

A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine. Jarman's contribution is a version of his 1977 Art and the Pose (aka Arty the Pose), refilmed at 3fps, with a musical soundtrack. Jarman planned The Dream Machine as a commemoration of William Burroughs and Gysin's 1982 visit to the UK, and received initial funding from the Arts Council in 1983, then rethought the project as a portmanteau film featuring Gysin alone. The production remained in limbo until 1986, when James Mackay obtained completion funding from the British Film Institute. (Since this film was released on VHS accompanied by Jarman's Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull, T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven and Pirate Tape under the umbrella title The Dream Machine, synopses of this film have often muddled up its details with those of the earlier films. )

Una evocativa y radical visualización de los poemas de amor de William Shakespeare leídos por Judi Dench. Catorce sonetos emparejados con etéreas secuencias, figuras de mar, jardines coloridos y mágicas escenas con imágenes de paisajes que expresan perfectamente el amor explorado en los sonetos.

A male model's poses are accompanied by a photographer's narration exploring censorship, self expression and sexual desire.

Una evocativa y radical visualización de los poemas de amor de William Shakespeare leídos por Judi Dench. Catorce sonetos emparejados con etéreas secuencias, figuras de mar, jardines coloridos y mágicas escenas con imágenes de paisajes que expresan perfectamente el amor explorado en los sonetos.

Reel 37 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Imágenes de actos rituales y de objetos de significación mística se superponen con el fin de reproducir un universo abstracto de simbolismo onírico a través del color, la textura y el misterio.