Christopher Hobbs

Filmes

Completely Bad News
Production Design
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
Jubilee: A Time Less Golden
Interviewee
Documentary about the making of Derek Jarman's 1979 film "Jubilee".
Velvet Goldmine
Production Design
Em 1971, o glam rock invade o mundo da música britânica, provocando uma verdadeira revolução, não apenas na música mas também nos costumes da sociedade. O ícone do movimento é Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), roqueiro que leva garotas e rapazes a pintarem as unhas, usarem batom e explorarem sua sexualidade. Incapaz de lidar com a fama adquirida, Brian forja sua própria morte, com a farsa sendo descoberta logo depois. Anos mais tarde, um jornalista inglês (Christian Bale) começa a investigar seu desaparecimento.
The Tribe
Production Design
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Memórias
Production Design
While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.
Orlando - A Mulher Imortal
Set Designer
O nobre Orlando é condenado pela rainha Elizabeth I a permanecer eternamente jovem. A maldição se cumpre e Orlando atravessa os séculos experimentando vidas, parceiros, sentimentos e mudanças de gênero.
O Fim de um Longo Dia
Production Design
Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.
Eduardo II
Production Designer
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
Eduardo II
Equery
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
O Jardim
Production Design
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
Strike It Rich
Production Design
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Production Design
Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an evil looking governess suddenly arrives at the hall...
Salome's Last Dance
Set Designer
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
Crepúsculo do Caos
Production Design
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.
Caravaggio
Production Design
A mais profunda reflexão de Derek Jarman sobre arte, sexualidade e identidade reconta a vida do famoso pintor renascentista por meio de suas telas brilhantes, quase blasfemas e seus flertes com o submundo. O filme incorpora a estética precisa do pintor em seus próprios elementos visuais.
The Angelic Conversation
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love, in a dreamlike landscape. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare sonnets, that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
Catalan
Art Direction
A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.
In the Shadow of the Sun
'The Shadow of the Sun' draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as “an alchemical conjunction” and experimented throughout his career with creating dream symbolism through the superimposition of image and action. Originally called English Apocalypse, the film’s final title is derived from a 17th Century alchemical text that used the phrase as a synonym for the philosopher’s stone – the highly sought substance that turns base metals into gold and silver. The film was intended as a step toward the idea of an ambient video, that like its musical counterpart, was designed to enhance an environment.
Magnicídio
Costume Design
A rainha Elizabeth I visita a Grã-Bretanha do final do século XX para encontrar uma paisagem deprimente onde a vida mudou desde seu tempo.
Sebastiane
Emperor's Guest
Na Roma do ano de 303, numa festa no palácio do Imperador Diocleciano, soldados se divertem torturando um jovem cristão. Sebastiane, capitão da guarda e também cristão, revolta-se com a situação. Deposto e exilado numa ilha remota, sua religião o torna vulnerável a humilhações de outros soldados e aos impulsos sexuais do centurião Severus. Apoiando-se em sua fé em Deus, Sebastiane não reage às agressões. O único a se importar com ele é Justin, com quem cria uma relação afetuosa. Muitos anos depois de sua morte, ele é canonizado pela Igreja e consagrado como São Sebastião.
Sebastiane
Title Graphics
Na Roma do ano de 303, numa festa no palácio do Imperador Diocleciano, soldados se divertem torturando um jovem cristão. Sebastiane, capitão da guarda e também cristão, revolta-se com a situação. Deposto e exilado numa ilha remota, sua religião o torna vulnerável a humilhações de outros soldados e aos impulsos sexuais do centurião Severus. Apoiando-se em sua fé em Deus, Sebastiane não reage às agressões. O único a se importar com ele é Justin, com quem cria uma relação afetuosa. Muitos anos depois de sua morte, ele é canonizado pela Igreja e consagrado como São Sebastião.
Garden of Luxor
Himself
A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of reddish random images of Egypt and the pyramids; a strange garden destroyed from time to time by a man with a whip; a young peaceful man relaxing on the floor; other smoking and eating insects. This is Jarman's view of the Garden of Luxor and its mysteries. (IMDb)