The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Of Angels and Apocalypse: The Cinema of Derek Jarman
July 11-31, 2008 at
Northwest Film Center
, Portland, Oregon
Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was the "enfant terrible" of British cinema in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. With singular visual flair-mixing past and future, theater and painting, performance art and visual abstraction, sex and politics-Jarman struggled for gay liberation. In a world devastated by AIDS, Jarman lived as participant and observer, synthesizing, and presenting all that passed before him with honesty, originality, intelligence, and unique artistic vision. We are pleased to begin our retrospective with Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton's new Derek, a loving homage to this seminal figure in the history of independent film and art.
Featured Works:
Sebastian (1976), Jubilee (1978), The Tempest (1979), The Angelic Conversation (1985), Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), The Garden (1990), Wittgenstein (1993, pictured), Blue (1993), Derek (Isaac Julien, 2008)
Program information:
Of Angels and Apocalypse: The Cinema of Derek Jarman
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