Kurzfilmprogramm Derek Jarman

The Dream Machine – Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, GB 1986, 16mm, color, 35 min
Imagining October – Derek Jarman, GB 1984, 16mm, color and b/w, 27 min
The Queen is Dead: Three Songs by The Smiths – Derek Jarman, GB 1986, 35mm, color and b/w, 13 min
Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull – Derek Jarman, GB 1979, DCP (from Super 8), color and b/w, 15 min

Jarman’s music videos served as an important source of income and at times resulted in song cycles that come together as larger wholes. Among them is his elegant, politically charged triptych set to songs by the legendary Marianne Faithfull, as well as the three films for The Smiths, which still stand out today as a sharp-edged masterpiece of the genre and reached a wide audience.

His contribution to the anthology project The Dream Machine is a reworking of his short film Art and the Pose (1976/77), re-filmed at three frames per second and accompanied by music.

Imagining October documents a journey behind the Iron Curtain—from the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow to fire temples in Azerbaijan—and reflects on politics and conflict during a frosty period of the Cold War. The high-profile soundtrack was created by Jarman’s friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge in collaboration with Dave Ball of Soft Cell. (Neil Young)