Aria (1987)
10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers
Sebastiane (1976)
Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guards Christian beliefs clash with his gay commanders desire for closeness Being tortured becomes pleasurable
Caravaggio (1986)
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld
Jubilee (1978)
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk
Wittgenstein (1993)
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese born, Cambridge educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 1951, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language A series of
Blue (1993)
In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state
The Tempest (1979)
Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit servant, Ariel
The Last of England (1987)
The artists personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose A dark meditation on London under Thatcher
Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman (2009)
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical portrait of artist Derek Jarmans childhood awakening in 1950s England Acquired for preservation by the British Film Institutes National Archive, Matthew Mishorys film includes an original s
The Garden (1990)
A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones
21st Century Nuns (1994)
Brief portrait of a British wing of an order of gay male nuns
Ostia (1988)
Pier Paolo Pasolini takes up with a young man and journeys to Ostia, and his death