Derek Jarman
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…
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.…
#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…
