Derek Jarman at the Serpentine
I remember the first time I saw a Derek Jarman film. I’d been brought up on Disney and westerns – here was something brave, rough, colourful and violent, and it opened my eyes to modern film-making.
So I was naturally interested in the Serpentine Gallery’s Derek Jarman exhibition, which includes a new film about Derek by Isaac Julien as well as rare Super-8 footage from Jarman’s private archive. There are also lightboxes showing views of Jarman’s seaside cottage at Dungeness – out of a a remote shack on a shingle beach, Jarman created an eclectic and weird kingdom of his own, …read more
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