Derek Jarman
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Mark Farrelly performs JARMAN his one play about the British iconic queer filmmaker and activist
The British writer/actor Mark Farrelly has established his considerable reputation of telling the stories of iconic queer figures. First Naked Hope, his one-man play about the legendary Quentin Crisp the flamboyant English writer, humorist, actor, life-class model, and at one-time rent boy. Crisp was a great self-publicist who gave outrageous interviews about his unusual life…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews DEREK JARMAN’s first film (Sebastiane) and last film (Blue)
Serving as bookends to his filmmaking career, these two titles offer a fascinating insight into Jarman’s themes, obsessions, and aesthetics, as well as representing the powerful trajectory of one artist’s life/work. From painter to set designer (most famously on Ken Russell’s The Devils) to filmmaker, even if he claimed to never seeing himself as one.…
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#SaveProspectCottage : supporting the Campaign to save DEREK JARMEN’s Home
The late great Derek Jarman who died in 1994 aged just 52 was so much more than a queer auteur. This remarkable Brit was a gay rights activist stage designer, diarist, artist, author. and gardener. His enormous legacy is not just his ground-breaking films such as Sebastiane Jubilee The Tempest Caravaggio Edward II and Blue but…
