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"Day of Derek" at Roxy Bar and Cinema, London on Sun 23rd March. Andy Kimpton-Nye's Derek: Life as Art doc is playing at 5pm, followed by Sebastiane, then Caravaggio. AND Performance For Blue, Friday 14 March, 7 pm, by Simon Fisher Turner with Black Sifichi. Serpentine GalleryFriday 14 March, 7 pm. Go here for more info. ----------------------------------------- Southwark LGBT History Month event Black Divas/Gay Icons Tuesday 12 February 7-9pm @ Inspire Café, St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool Grove, off Walworth Road, London SE17 2HH. Contact: Dax Ashworth 07958 301324 dax.ashworth@southwark.gov.uk www.southwark-lgbt.org Stephen Bourne has published two biographies of popular Black divas and gay icons: Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather and Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music. He invites you to share an evening with these two legendary ladies of song with a presentation of anecdotes, music, archive footage, and gay history. Admission free. This event will include previously unseen, unedited footage of Elisabeth Welch, at the age of 92, being interviewed about Derek Jarman. Stephen Bourne's biography of Elisabeth Welch includes reminiscences by the author about his brief working relationship with Derek Jarman in 1983-84, on an unrealized 'home movie' project about Elisabeth Welch, as well as a chapter devoted to the star's relationship with Derek during the making of 'The Tempest'. --- December 2007---- Information on The Serpentine Gallery's Derek Jarman exhibition next year can be downloaded from hereIsaac Julien's biopic "Derek" will form part of the exhibition that starts 23rd February, 2008 --- October 2007---- Musician "Scanner" a.k.a Robin Rimbaud will present a live concert of his CD "This Garden is Full of Metal" at the Museum of Garden History, London - Friday 26th October, 19:00. The press release states "For this rare London live performance Scanner, aka British artist Robin Rimbaud, will present the debut live performance of his critically acclaimed tribute to filmmaker Derek Jarman at London’s unique Museum of Garden History, as part of their Atmospheres Festival 21-26 October. Download press release here Derek Jarman painting exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, February 2008 - including a screening of Isaac Julien's new biopic on digital channel More4 (UK) Info here. Have updated the site - adding some more detail to some audio products in the 'Product' section of the site. Some interesting links/samples from Robin Rimbaud's CD "This Garden Is Full of Metal" and some new images and info on Psychic TV's Themes 2 album. I uploaded a short film to YouTube I edited from footage I took at Dungeness in 2003. Images and video clips from Throbbing Gristle at the Tate Modern in May - go here and chose "Miscellaneous" --- August 2007---- Andy Kimton-Nye has informed me that his wonderful documentary Derek Jarman: Life as Art is now available to buy on DVD (£10.00 inlc. P&P for UK, or £10.00 + £2.50 for P&P outside the UK). Go to www.400blows.co.uk where you can contact Andy and get yourself a copy. --- July 2007---- The rarely screened War Requiem will be screened as part of a Laurence Olivier season at the BFI Southbank, London in October. Dates to be confirmed but BFI members are able to book now. Vertigo Magazine (Summer 07) has an article by Stephen Barber, talking about his recollections of Derek Jarman, London and Mark Almond. Page scan here Blue and Glitterbug are being released in the UK throught Artificial Eye on July 23rd. Go to Sendit to order your copy for just £12.89. --- May 2007---- The latest edition (Spring) of Vertigo magazine has an article written by SlowMotionAngel.com webmaster James Tucker entitled INFLUENTIAL : DEREK JARMAN. For those who missed it, the article is available here. There is an article about the music of Jarman's Super 8 films in the May issue of The Wire magazine. The piece is a part of their Cross Platforms feature.For more info go to their website www.thewire.co.uk. ---- April 2007--- The May edition of Dazed and Confused magazine (UK) has a wonderful piece about Derek, including some rare photographs on the set of Derek's films and testaments from Tilda Swinton, Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, artist Cerith Wyn Evans, Neil Tennant, Sandy Powell and Peter Christopherson. Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years is an exhibition at the Barbican, London from June 5th - Sept 9th that includes work by Derek Jarman. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988 is showing at the ICA, London until May 6th. ---- Feb 2007---- Screening of Jubilee at the Tricycle Cinema, Kilburn High Road, London, at 2.30pm on 9th March 2007. Apparently Orlando (aka Jack Birkett) who played Borgia Ginz is presenting the event and will be in attendance!This month marks 13 years since Jarman's untimely death. ---- Jan 2007---- The Angelic Conversation, Wittgenstein and Caravaggio have been released on DVD by the BFI. Go here to buy Angelic Conversation Go here to buy Caravaggio Go here to buy WittgenseinGo to the film pages to see images of the DVD covers. Still no news on the Derek biopic yet. As far as I know Isaac and Colin are still working on it. I am writing an article for Derek Jarman for a well known film publication, so fingers crossed in a month or so I will be published if I can get the tone right! :) James ---- Oct 2006---- James Mackay is presenting a programme of Derek's Super 8 films at the Centre Georges Pompidou on December 4th and again in Amsterdam (Rialto Filmtheater, Ceintuurbaan 338 , 1072 GN Amsterdam) on December 15th and 16th. The programme:STUDIO BANKSIDE de Derek Jarman / 1970 / 6'5 MISS GABY de Derek Jarman / 1972 / 5' JOURNEY TO AVEBURY de Derek Jarman / 1971 /10' ART OF MIRRORS de Derek Jarman / 1973 / 4' STOLEN APPLES FOR KAREN BLIXEN de Derek Jarman / 1973 / 2' SEBASTIAN WRAP de Derek Jarman / 1975 / 5' TAROT de Derek Jarman / 1972-73 / 7' B2 MOVIE de Derek Jarman / 1983 / 32' --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -- The new edition of Vertigo magazine (Vol.3 NO.3, Autumn 2006) has published an artical written by Tilda Swinton entitled "A Letter to a Boy From His Mother" where she discusses Derek's work and notices "to be an emerging, gay teenager in a small town in the early 1980's, stumbling upon Jarman's Sebastiane was, for so many, nothing short of a miracle." The magazine has articals on Tarkovsky and Pasolini too. A great read - www.vertigomagazine.co.uk ----Sept 2006---- Thanks to Paul Power, SlowMotionAngel is now accessible via www.derekjarman.co.uk, .org and .net! Paul purchased the domains many years ago and they have been lying dormant. He kindly offered to direct them to us for absolutely no charge. Some greedy bastards in the US bought derekjarman.com and offered it to him for a silly amount - we dont need those damn capitalists to make this site any better anyway! Thanks a million Paul - good luck with your bike ride mate!! --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -- "Poet Ben Barton and photographer Jennifer Harris present a site specific work drawn from the indomitable landscapes of Dungeness, revealing a striking collection of images in monochrome and colour. "While walking around the exhibition visitors will be encouraged to pick-up loose leaf poems from leaflet dispensers. Written on site during the production process, these poems offer a window into the visual work: complementary, insightful and challenging. " 18th September to 11th October 2006 ASHFORD LIBRARY GALLERYChurch Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 1QX Caravaggio & Wittgenstein
are to be shown on Artsworld According to Artsworld Magazine they
have been Outsiders Film Festival
in Liverpool The BFI are to release
three Jarman films on DVD later in the year - Caravaggio, Angelic Conversation
and Wittgenstein! No exact dates given yet. Author Stephen Bourne's book Elisabeth
Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music which has references to Derek
Jarman and a chapter devoted to Derek and Elisabeth's association on The
Tempest - including Elisabeth's diary entries is now available. |