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Derek Jarman
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Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Actor, Production Designer Born: January 31, 1942 in Northwood, Middlesex, England, UK Death: February 19, 1994 in London, England, UK Biography:An accomplished painter, "Derek Jarman" entered films in the early '70s, designing sets for "Ken Russell"'s "The Devils" (1971) and "Savage Messiah" (1972). After making numerous experimental shorts, mostly in Super-8, he began helming features in 1979 with "Sebastiane", a controversial gay-themed account of Saint Sebastian, in which all the dialogue was spoken in Latin. Over the next 20 years Jarman frequently interwove historical evocation and unexpected anachronisms, particularly in his biopics "Caravaggio" (1986) and "Wittgenstein" (1993). His landmark non-narrative features of the '80s, "The Angelic Conversation" (1985) and "The Last of England" (1987), offer a painter's sense of texture, with Jarman transferring Super-8 footage onto video for his editing, and then transferring the video onto 35-mm film. Radical gay politics, a constant theme in his films, emerged most forcefully in the '90s with... Full Biography
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