Derek Jarman - Moving Pictures of a Painter: Home Movies, Super 8 Films and Other Small Gestures

by Martin Frey, Michael Wetzel (Translator)

Overview

The English painter, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman (1942–1994) is mainly known
for his work in the medium of film, but he always saw himself primarily as a painter.
In this study of his lesser known home movies, Super 8 films and the ‘cinema of small
gestures’ that Jarman developed out of them, Martin Frey discusses numerous Super 8
films as well as the films THE LAST OF ENGLAND, IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN and
THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION. He examines Jarman’s filming techniques and way of
working and also analyses influences from the fields of painting and literature, such as
Allen Ginsberg, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney and Yves Klein.
For Jarman, life and work represented an indivisible unity. Numerous autobiographical
elements from his works are thus considered in this volume: his repressed childhood and
adolescence in post-war England, his coming out and the liberated life of the seventies,
his struggle against the unequal treatment of homosexuals during the Thatcher era, his
dealing with his own HIV infection and finally his personal commitment to fighting
discrimination against people who are HIV-positive or who have already developed Aids.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783200044951
Publisher:	Martin Frey
Publication date:	04/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

www.martinfrey.at Freelance work in the areas of graphic design, project development and urban photography. In recent years, numerous documentary and urbanistic photo projects about Vienna / Austria.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Childhood Images War and Disciplining Tabooed Sexuality Images of Childhood in The Last of England: 'There's no place like the HOME movie' Home-Movie Scenes in The Last of England Representative Terror The Strategy of the Autobiographical and the Strategy of Naming - Painting as Self-Defence 3. Go West! Influences from Painting and Literature Beat Power Allen Ginsberg A Finger in the Fishes Mouth Slade School of Fine Art The American Dream Parallels to Rauschenberg Painting It Out: David Hockney Physique Pictorial The Motif of Wrestling in Jarman's Films Yves Klein - Blue Empty Spaces 4. Beware of Definitions: Demarcation of the Rhetoric of Film Theory Questionable Categorisations Obsolete Categories of the Narrative Open Narration in Jarman's Work Subjective Mode of Expression The Beautiful Illusion: Representation of Space 5. Home Movies and Super 8 Short Films Studio Bankside - Private Images of Inner Life and the Outside World Kodak Families Not an Experiment but an Expedition Single Frame&Slow Down 'The filming, not the film.' Filming without a Script Filming as a Party No Concern for the Audience Underground&Anger The Artist's Intimate View Theme 1: 'Family Life' Theme 2: Journeys Theme 3: Staging/'Performance' Theme 4: Portraits Theme 5: Music 6. 'Cinema of Small Gestures': Super 8 as Feature Film In the Shadow of the Sun The Origins of the Images Silence is Golden The Angelic Conversation The History of the Film's Creation Shakespeare's Sonnets Under Attack A Dream World 7. Farewell to Super 8 8. Never Go to Hollywood 9. Notes 10. Shakespeare's Sonnets in The Angelic Conversation 11. Bibliography Primary Sources Texts by Derek Jarman Screenplays and Books on Films and Works by Derek Jarman Exhibition Catalogues Audio Tapes Secondary Literature Secondary Literature on Derek Jarman Secondary Literature on Other Topics Articles in Periodicals 12. Filmography Feature Films Short Films Music Videos 13. Photography Credits