Short Films: Derek Jarman & Luke Fowler
Fri 4 April 2025 - 13:15
KASKcinema

 

In the presence of Simon Fisher Turner, Luke Fowler

Sloane Square: A Room of One’s Own
Derek Jarman, 1976, UK, digital, 9'

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.

Garden of Luxor
Derek Jarman, 1972, UK, digital, 9'

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 Journey to Avebury
Derek Jarman, , UK, digital, 10'

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.

My Very Beautiful Movie
Derek Jarman, 1974, UK, digital, 7'

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
Luke Fowler, 2024, UK, digital, 18'

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.