John Maybury

Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London. An elaborately styled, gender non-conforming response to the anarchist anti-fashion that preceded it, the New Romantics came dressed to the nines, be it for a night out on the town or just to pop down to the local shops. While so often remembered as a fleeting pop-cultural phenomenon, this invigorating documentary firmly positions the New Romantics as a multidisciplinary art movement, encompassing fashion, performance, music and film. Alongside this cultural re-contextualisation, director Kevin Hegge shines a long-overdue spotlight on some of the movement’s lesser-known pioneers (step aside Spandau Ballet), while proudly centring the LGBTQIA+ stories that are so often erased from history.

Сложные межличностные отношения четырех людей, имевшие место на самом деле в Англии в 1940-х годах, чуть не привели к трагедии. История двух мужчин и двух женщин, запутавшихся в собственных поступках, остановившихся в тупике, в который их завели ошибки.

В 1991 году в Ираке американский солдат Джек Старкс встретился с местным подростком и получил от пацана пулю в голову. Врачи спасли Джеку жизнь, но от страшных последствий почти смертельного ранения уберечь не смогли: после дембеля начались у солдата такие глюки, что загремел он в психушку к доктору Томасу Беккеру. Этот доктор был известен тем, что назначал своим пациентам интенсивный курс лечения с помощью различных экспериментальных препаратов. Препарат произвел побочный эффект: Старкс увидел будущее…

Documentary about the making of Derek Jarman's 1979 film "Jubilee".

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Середина 60-х годов прошлого века. Знаменитый британский художник Фрэнсис Бэкон застает врасплох вора и… предлагает ему разделить с ним ложе… Теперь человека из «низов общества» окружает богемная «тусовка» изощренных в словоплетении, гротескных персонажей — прокуренных дам, мальчиков по вызову, алкоголиков, бродяг, художников и артистов. Эти люди с пристальным вниманием следят за всеми подробностями жизни своего кумира, каким для них является Бэкон — единственный и неповторимый…

Середина 60-х годов прошлого века. Знаменитый британский художник Фрэнсис Бэкон застает врасплох вора и… предлагает ему разделить с ним ложе… Теперь человека из «низов общества» окружает богемная «тусовка» изощренных в словоплетении, гротескных персонажей — прокуренных дам, мальчиков по вызову, алкоголиков, бродяг, художников и артистов. Эти люди с пристальным вниманием следят за всеми подробностями жизни своего кумира, каким для них является Бэкон — единственный и неповторимый…

Maybury's significant contribution to experimental film and video becomes apparent through a complex reworking of his own archive footage. "The film's attempt to re-create an acid trip is showcased in this creature's dance: whenever she moves, a rainbow of colors and shapes appear, as if her appendages are the artist's brushes". (Gary Morris)

Maledicta Electronica is a mesmerising journey into a video world of performance, S&M, politics and poetry. Maybury mixes exquisite image-making with an acutely urbane politic that never lets the viewer drift too long in pleasure fields.

Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett in lead roles, the tape confronts the conventions of world television and satellite broadcast, drawing on the fragmentary nature of the medium and the clich_s of the three minute attention span. At the same time, it replaces bland mainstream images with darker, more satirical observations and studies. The environment is surreal, a virtual reality television land of landscapes and imaginary cities, enhanced by Marvin Black's dark, dense soundtrack. It is a cyberspace where the impossible is all too possible. Within this parallel world, a series of archetypes act, observe and comment, informed by a strong sexual sensibility. '..a mesmerising, sometimes hysterically funny, cinematic bricolage with a strong sexual and mostly gay sensibility'. - Cordelia Swann

Another cutting-edge visual experiment from British artist John Maybury, Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1 serves up a video tribute to the male body, a steamy Kenneth Anger for the video age. Pieced together from a ten year stockpile of evocative, personal images, Maybury’s tape uses multi-form mixing techniques in a typically freeform exploration of the polymorphous field of desire and sexuality.

A woman pretends to be her dead husband in Nazi Germany in order to survive.

A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and friends.

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.

The concert was recorded live at the Dominion Theatre in London, on June 3, 1988. TracklistHide Credits 1 Jackie 2 Just Like You Said It Would Be 3 Mandinka 4 Just Call Me Joe 5 Never Get Old 6 Jerusalem 7 Troy 8 I Am Stretched On Your Grave

Взгляд на современную Англию королевы Елизаветы, прошедшей ради этого сквозь века и очутившейся в нашем времени. Безумная мозаика умирающего, катящегося в пропасть, дрянного и всё равно прекрасного мира

A short film broadcast on the Network 21 pirate tv station in 1987. "a short film, devoid of soundtrack, of a youth on a cross spinning suspended in fire, over which was superimposed another youth languishing in an armchair... apparently John Maybury's 'Big Love'." - John Chairman

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.

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. )

The Union Jacking Up is an ode to friends, including Trojan and Leigh Bowery who feature in the film among others, as well as a collage of news footage of 80s Britain. The film’s haunting soundtrack is composed similarly to the video and 16mm footage that fades and dissolves on screen, often montaging two sources to create abstract combinations and juxtapositions. - ICA

Through a series of tableaux/still life settings, characters are subjected to experiments dealing with elegance, science, violence, technology, glamour and love, attempting to examine the levels of alienation which the modern world and lifestyles encourage.

A model poses in bright primary colours alongside a number of oblique words. Images of a woman rotating wearing long flowing dresses are overlain and played at different speeds.

A filmed record of the 1978 "Alternative Miss World" beauty pageant held in a circus tent on Clapham Common in South London.

Several love stories set in one of the most interesting new cities in the world, Rotterdam.