Born in Northwood, London, in 1942 and died in 1994, Derek Jarman trained as a painter and designed sets for Ken Russell. His films are visually rich, personal and political, among the most important in British independent cinema. Sebastiane (1976), in Latin, Jubilee (1978), a punk vision of Elizabethan and modern England, and Caravaggio (1986) put gay desire at the centre of film. Diagnosed HIV-positive in 1986, he made his final film, Blue (1993), a blue screen with soundtrack, as he was going blind. He also created a famous garden on the shingle at Dungeness.
Awards (from the Sinekatalog award pages)
- 1986 · Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear — Caravaggio
- 1988 · Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award — The Last of England
- 1993 · Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award — Wittgenstein
Filmography
- A Journey to Avebury 1971 · IMDb 6.2
- Art of Mirrors 1973 · IMDb 6.0
- Sebastiane 1976 · IMDb 6.2 · 3,527 votes
- Jubilee 1978 · IMDb 5.9 · 4,100 votes
- The Tempest 1979 · IMDb 6.3 · 1,413 votes
- The Angelic Conversation 1985 · IMDb 6.1 · 1,001 votes
- Caravaggio 1986 · IMDb 6.5 · 7,939 votes
- The Last of England 1987 · IMDb 6.4 · 1,668 votes
- War Requiem 1989 · IMDb 6.6 · 1,061 votes
- The Garden 1990 · IMDb 6.3 · 1,282 votes
- Edward II 1991 · IMDb 6.7 · 3,401 votes
- Blue 1993 · IMDb 7.3 · 3,258 votes
- Wittgenstein 1993 · IMDb 6.9 · 3,256 votes