Derek Jarman: Modern Nature on Film
We are delighted to announce 'Derek Jarman: Modern Nature on Film', a special season of film screenings in collaboration with the Glasgow Film Theatre focusing on the work of one of the most original and influential filmmakers of the past 50 years.
Date: Sunday 16 March 2025 - Sunday 27 April 2025
Time: 00:00 - 22:00
Venue: GFT
Category: Hunterian
Speaker: Various
We are delighted to collaborate with the Glasgow Film Theatre to show an incredible selection of films by Derek Jarman to support our current exhibition, 'Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature'. This screening season 'Derek Jarman: Modern Nature on Film' centres on the period c. 1987-1994, an intense and prolific phase of the artist and filmmaker's life. During this time Jarman made several feature-length films, wrote a number of much-loved books (including the journals 'Modern Nature' and 'Smiling in Slow Motion'), and exhibited his artwork at major exhibitions, including in Manchester and Glasgow. Through March and April there are rare chances to see some of the most significant moving image works of this period in one-off screenings at GFT. 'The Last of England' (1987), 'The Garden' (1990) and 'Blue' (1993) all reveal how Jarman’s experimental approach to film, steeped in his work with Super 8mm and in painting, yielded unique cinematic visions. Although very different in tone and formal approach, these three films share an impulse to address the contemporary world in which Jarman found himself in the late 1980s and early 1990s, shaped by neoconservative politics and the AIDS crisis. A double bill of 'In the Shadow of the Sun' (1981) and 'Imagining October' (1984) shows something of Jarman’s experimental approach to short films in particular and his affinities with avant-garde practice ranging from Sergei Eisenstein to Throbbing Gristle.Derek Jarman’s 1986 film 'Caravaggio' is also showing at GFT alongside this programme as the Queer Cinema Sundays screening for April.