Derek Jarman
Alchemist, magician, lover, friend, activist, poet, painter, genius — there were many sides to Derek Jarman. For a generation he was a hugely inluential, high-proile igure at a time when there were very few famous out gay men. His career as an iconoclastic ilmmaker gave him a platform which he was happy to use as a campaigner.
Jarman created a unique body of inspiring work, almost every frame as rich as a painting, from his sexy vision of Roman soldiers with a young saint frolicking by the sea in 1976’s Sebastiane (with all the dialogue in Latin) to his inal work, the experimental Blue (1993) and his posthumously released Super 8 collection Glitterbug (1994).