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Derek Jarman
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31 January 1942 - 19 February 1994
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A unique director with bold ideological ideas about cinema and acute social criticism and idiosyncratic views. These lines reveal the character of the work of the famous English director and screenwriter Derek Jarman, born January 31, 1942 in London. His successful career, full of filming scandalous, socially relevant films, the director began with work as a production artist in the theater, and later in the paintings of Ken Russell “Wild Messiah” and “Devils”. Derek Jarman’s first creative successes
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A unique director with bold ideological ideas about cinema and acute social criticism and idiosyncratic views. These lines reveal the character of the work of the famous English director and screenwriter Derek Jarman, born January 31, 1942 in London. His successful career, full of filming scandalous, socially relevant films, the director began with work as a production artist in the theater, and later in the paintings of Ken Russell “Wild Messiah” and “Devils”. Derek Jarman’s first creative successes were achieved with the help of an 8 mm camera and were short films. All his paintings are full of biographical details of historical personalities and people of creative professions, accompanied by the actualization of social themes.
Derek Jarman’s feature-length film Jubilee (1978) is a critical essay on the times of Queen Elizabeth I and the decline of the future of England. With creative power and ambitious character, Caravaggio was created - a beautiful, anachronistic story about the Italian artist and his art, as well as the impressionist films On England a Farewell Look (1987), Requiem of War (1988) and Garden (1990).
Among fans of the film industry and show business, Derek Jarman is known as the director of a number of clips for the boy band of the Pet Shop Boys. Thanks to the cooperation of the musical group and the English director, the performances turned into entertainment shows with scenery and the participation of professional dancers. The clips have acquired the character of short, exciting films. The film is part of Pet Shop Boys: Pop Art, which was released many years after Derek Jarman died on February 19, 1994. /