Short Films: Derek Jarman & Luke Fowler
In the presence of Simon Fisher Turner, Luke Fowler
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
In the presence of Simon Fisher Turner, Luke Fowler
Records life in Anthony Harwood’s Sloane Square apartment where Derek Jarman lived during the period that he made Sebastiane. Long sequences in stop frame pixilation animate the interior. The middle part is a “removal party” held when Derek was finally evicted.
An imaginary Arabian garden made out of old postcards of Alexandria, Egypt, is adorned with costumed figures and filmed through discarded footage from an old swords-and-sandals epic.
A long car journey to the great Neolithic stone circle and its surroundings at Avebury in Wiltshire, filmed through a yellow filter which creates a map of a landscape saturated in gold: a path, fields, trees, sheep, cows, and the stones.
Fire Island in New York is filmed and reimagined through a glass prism held in front of the camera: waves, the beach, plants, jutting wooden posts, and a man holding a starfish.
Being Blue was made on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of Derek Jarman. Fowler sought to consider both the landscape of Dungeness and Jarman’s life and work during his time there. The film touches impressionistically on themes of sexuality, art making and nature, and features newly discovered recordings of Jarman, as well as music from Simon Fisher Turner and Bruce Gilbert.