As the celebration of the bold and provocative Derek Jarman’s career continues across London, we wanted to highlight the BFI’s March calendar, which will see an exhibition amongst daily screenings of the artist’s films at the Southbank venue.
In the second part of the BFI’s two-month retrospective, the focus lies on the artist’s work from 1987 onwards.
‘No matter what the style was, or how they finally got made, Jarman’s films were created to affect change’ says William Fowler in the season’s introduction. With bold views on homosexuality, the Falklands, social breakdown and capitalism, each film of Jarman’s makes for eager viewing as the retrospective intends to celebrate such controversial concerns.
‘New Queer Cinema’ sees Derek’s films newly restored by John Maybury, Cerith Wyn Evans, friends and collaborators.
There is still time to visit Mark Turner's Pandemonium Exhibition at Somerset House which closes this Sunday. Further screenings of Jarman’s work are also being shown at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, starting 20th March.