Derek Jarman Movies

Shot 1988 by Derek Jarman, completed for the exhibition Tilda Swinton: Ongoing at Eye Filmmuseum

Experimental short overlays footage of buildings and fields with that of a spiral galaxy.

A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.

An elegy on the death of the film-maker's mother. Fragments from dreams, nightmares and memories combine with natural sound and landscape in this...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite...

Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? is an essential document of LGBTQ London that was unseen until 2014, 30 years after it was originally...

A shadowy, sharply-dressed spokesman for the occult, chaos-magic fellowship and network The Temple of Psychic Youth reads a brief message.

Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the...

A tapestry of colour and movement made from twelve reels of all the oddbits, fragments and diary films compiled between 1972 and 1983 that...

In this experimental short, four naked men are touched by death.

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...

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, July 1989 on their MCMLXXXIX Tour.

A silent avant-garde experience created by Derek Jarman, filled with superimposed images forming a whole picture. His palette consists mostly of...

An experimental film by Derek Jarman that captures the decay of an urban environment.

Super 8 short film by Derek Jarman, shot on Fire Island in New York.

A documentary record of the 1968 ballet by Frederick Ashton, performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.

A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.

A stop-motion film showing Jarman and several other occupants vandalizing an apartment from which they have just been evicted.