Derek Jarman Movies

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...

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

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

In the early 1980s, Jarman struggled to get feature film projects off the ground and invested his energies in different fields, including music...

Super 8 film by Derek Jarman

Experimental short film

Arms outstretched, a masked god stands on a clifftop surveying the rocks below and sees a sailor lying drowned in a rockpool, while a mermaid makes...

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman cuts together disparate footage.

A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.

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

Short film made on Bankside featuring, as the electric fairy, a "young man with curly blonde hair, a star on his forehead and stars on his tunic,...

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

Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen is a three-minute black and white film which begins with a portrait of Karen Blixen taken from a photograph.

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

An experimental short film by Derek Jarman includes images of a man combing his hair, death reflected in the mirror and various burning objects.

Derek Jarman discusses his film and visual art work in this experimental conversation film.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an order of gay male 'nuns', founded in San Francisco in the late 1970s with a goal to "expiate all stigmatic...

A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods."

A lonely glassed shy teenage boy makes several amusing and charming attempts to declare his love for a girl, carrying a bouquet of flowers with him.