This experimental film by Derek Jarman features the fascinating multi-layered, hypnotic non-linear effects of Super-8 set to a soundtrack with the music of Throbbing Gristle
He may be best known for his work as a filmmaker but Derek Jarman was foremost a painter. Jarman was a prodigiously talented and visionary artist whose works crossed a range of media boundaries including literature, painting, set design, gardening, and activism and was one of the primary catalysts for a generation of artists and filmmakers whose work is marked by a visionary and dark, subversive imagination. His avant-garde style of filmmaking is visually rich, and often surprisingly entertaining.
This master work joins a long line of avant-garde classics and manifests Jarman's declaration that film is "the wedding of light and matter- and alchemical conjunction."
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Such a nice surprise that 40 something minutes by Jarman. This guy got repugnant to me when i saw that gotesque, stupid and , on the whole, uninspired film about Wittgenstein. And it is not only my special reverence for Wittgenstein that got into the way of my unrestrained appreciation of the film , i just think that Ludwig W., like Nietzsche, was one of those thinkers who took honesty and critical discernment to its ultimate frontiers (volunteering for draft, then his lamentable career as an idealistic and slightly unrealistic teacher :))).Let aside the fact that Tractatus allows an ethical interpretation. And there came Jarman , the new avatar of Aristophanes, to make fun... So, going back to where i started, the thing you post here is really enjoyable and shows that this guy is any good after all :)
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