Jubilee: Six Film Scripts

Description

From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little England/A Time of Hope, Neutron, and Sod 'Em, five of which have yet to reach the screen and all of which confirm Jarman's reputation as Britain's leading independent filmmaker.

One of England's foremost filmmakers, Derek Jarman (1942-1994) wrote and directed several feature films, including Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, and Blue, as well as numerous short films and music videos. He was a stage designer, artist, writer, gardener, and an outspoken AIDS and queer rights activist in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the author of several books, among them Modern Nature, Chroma, and At Your Own Risk, available from University of Minnesota Press.

"For all his anger, Jarman never seems brutalised. He retains his humanity and his good humour. His is a wonderfully garrulous, mercurial, polymathic daemon." --Literary Review "Jarman [is] the sort of troublemaking visionary who one day may be compared with Blake." --John Gill, Time Out "The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany--I can call it nothing less--of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace." --Tilda Swinton