Rentals
Derek Jarman
Complementing BFI Southbank’s major retrospective, BFI Player’s Derek Jarman collection aims to bring a diverse selection of the innovative and irreplaceable director's works to a wider audience.
From his startling and subversive features like The Angelic Conversation and Caravaggio, to some of the more obscure shorts, documentaries and tributes that have followed in his wake, this collection shines a light on the broad artistic sensibility and wide-ranging influence of one of the key figures in post-war British cinema.
The GardenThe Garden
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1991 92 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
Inside his modest, sparsely-furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams.
The Last of EnglandThe Last of England
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1987 91 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman's passionate and poetic lament on the rise of Thatcherism and corporate dealings.
War RequiemWar Requiem
War 1989 93 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman's affecting vision of the horrors young men faced during the First World War.
SebastianeSebastiane
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1976 85 minsDirector: Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress
A distinctly bold and sensual reclaiming of gay history, Jarman here tells the sexually intense story of the 4th-century martyr.
The Angelic ConversationThe Angelic Conversation
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1985 81 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
The Angelic Conversation sees Derek Jarman conjure an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare’s love poems. With narration by Judi Dench and music by Coil.
JubileeJubilee
Drama 1978 106 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
The mythological past and a soon-to-be bleak future converge on the sparse, grey streets of London in Jarman’s personal vision of the punk movement.
The TempestThe Tempest
Drama 1980 96 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman’s brooding and darkly symbolic third feature is considered by some to be the most evocative Shakespeare adaptation ever to reach the screen.
WittgensteinWittgenstein
Biopic 1993 72 minsDirector: Derek Jarman
Written for Channel 4 by radical literary theorist Terry Eagleton and directed by Derek Jarman, Wittgenstein is a bold, offbeat biography, exploring the politics and sexuality of the great, troubled philosopher.
The ClearingThe Clearing
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1993 7 minsDirector: Alexis Bistikas
An intriguing and poetic short film – a man (Derek Jarman) walking on Hampstead Heath is lured through the woods by the sound of a saxophone.
Derek Jarman: Life As ArtDerek Jarman: Life As Art
Documentary 2004 60 minsDirector: Andy Kimpton-Nye
Documentary on the life and work of experimental filmmaker, who died in 1994. Contributors including Tilda Swinton recall Jarman's peculiar genius.