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\u201cAs long as the music\u2019s loud enough we won\u2019t hear the world fall apart.\u201d<\/span> It\u2019s hard to know where to begin when describing the life and impact of filmmaker, author and activist Derek Jarman, who passed away twenty-five years ago this week, but this quote from 1978 film<\/span> Jubilee<\/span><\/a> <\/em>\u2013<\/span><\/i> once described as \u201c<\/span>Britain\u2019s only decent punk film<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> \u2013<\/span> seems as good a place as any. The film depicts a struggle between punks and royalty, between socialism and nationalism \u2014 all told through the lens of a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth I and a bunch of anarchists hellbent on smashing up London and reeking havoc on its derelict buildings. It\u2019s political commentary, but it\u2019s also sheer escapism \u2013<\/span> and that\u2019s exactly what Jarman did best.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise that anarchy was a regular theme in Jarman\u2019s oeuvre, particularly his early work. He was openly gay in an era which treated queers as pariahs; midway through his career he was diagnosed with HIV, a virus still shrouded by stigma despite medical advancements, for which his activism paved the way. Words like \u2018bold\u2019<\/span> and \u2018fearless\u2019<\/span> are overused but they\u2019re the best descriptors of Jarman, who was radically, unapologetically queer.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":74472,"id":74472,"title":"Jubilee 14 - Image courtesy of BFI","filename":"Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","filesize":342883,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/why-derek-jarmans-radical-queer-films-still-matter-today\/jubilee-14-image-courtesy-of-bfi-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"jubilee-14-image-courtesy-of-bfi-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74471,"date":"2019-02-22 17:26:07","modified":"2019-02-22 17:26:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1263,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":63,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","medium-width":1263,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1263,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","large-width":1263,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1010,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1263,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jubilee-14-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1263,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}},{"ID":74478,"id":74478,"title":"Caravaggio 33 - Image courtesy of BFI","filename":"Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","filesize":417149,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/why-derek-jarmans-radical-queer-films-still-matter-today\/caravaggio-33-image-courtesy-of-bfi-3\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"caravaggio-33-image-courtesy-of-bfi-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74471,"date":"2019-02-22 17:49:20","modified":"2019-02-22 17:49:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1231,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","thumbnail-width":62,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","medium-width":1231,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","medium_large-width":1231,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","large-width":1231,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","1536x1536-width":985,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1231,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Caravaggio-33-Image-courtesy-of-BFI-2.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1231,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Stills from Jubilee (1978) and Caravaggio (1986), Courtesy BFI"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

This queerness informed his work, which often dragged classic tales kicking and screaming into Jarman\u2019s world. He reimagined the life of martyr Saint Sebastian in<\/span> Sebastiane<\/span><\/a><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> a 1976 film whose homoeroticism was met with controversy; refashioned<\/span> Shakespeare\u2019s <\/span>The Tempest<\/span><\/em><\/a> in a crumbling mansion with a cast of punks; when he finally got funding for<\/span> Caravaggio<\/span><\/a> <\/em>in 1986 \u2014 recounting the life of the 17th-century painter \u2014 he created a world filled with sex workers, jealous mistresses and brutal murderers. These disruptive portrayals of classical icons shocked and incensed purists, but they also established Jarman\u2019s reputation as one of the most brilliantly controversial film-makers of his time.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Jarman was so much more than a filmmaker. Not only did he create groundbreaking queer representation within his work, he also <\/span>rallied against<\/span><\/a> Thatcher\u2019s insidious<\/span> Section 28 legislation<\/span><\/a>, which essentially banned gay teachers from schools and intensified prejudice against them. Jarman was also vocal about the stigma he faced as an HIV+ person, which still exists today, although a combination of time and medical progress has eroded it slowly. As the years passed, his influence grew; by the late 1980s he was making music videos for The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys and Bob Geldof, whereas his friends and collaborators \u2013 Tilda Swinton and David Bowie amongst them \u2013 were becoming stars, raising Jarman\u2019s profile in the process. He began compiling a multidisciplinary catalogue of work which spanned more than <\/span>400 paintings and sketches<\/span><\/a> and a series of memoirs including the crushingly beautiful<\/span> Modern Nature<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span><\/i>a bittersweet ode to his garden over which his HIV diagnosis lingers heavily.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":74475,"id":74475,"title":"WG-DJAR00501","filename":"WG-DJAR00501.jpg","filesize":719394,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/why-derek-jarmans-radical-queer-films-still-matter-today\/wg-djar00501\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"wg-djar00501","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74471,"date":"2019-02-22 17:31:23","modified":"2019-02-22 17:31:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1175,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","thumbnail-width":59,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","medium-width":1175,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","medium_large-width":1175,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","large-width":1175,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","1536x1536-width":940,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","2048x2048-width":1175,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":7,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WG-DJAR00501.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1175,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Derek Jarman, 40% of British Women, 1992\r\nCourtesy Derek Jarman Estate and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery\r\n"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Jarman\u2019s transformation not just as an artist, but as a person, can be charted through the timeline of his work. His earliest films were experimental, revolutionary in their depictions of queer themes and tinged with nihilism. They were political, driven by the sense of anarchy that galvanised Britain during Margaret Thatcher\u2019s oppressive reign. These were the years during which Jarman \u2013<\/span> to recall the quote at the beginning of this piece \u2013<\/span> cranked up the volume, dancing through the flames of his own making. He was incendiary, eager to disrupt and driven by a desire to make the world a less hostile place, taking controversial measures to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as the years went on, Jarman became increasingly thoughtful, creating more poetic work. <\/span>Modern Nature <\/span><\/i>arguably best exemplifies this shift. Whereas a younger Jarman would have taken his HIV diagnosis as a catalyst for nihilism, he went the other way and instead began to nurture the plants in his garden. He dug, watered and planted to cultivate new life as his own slipped slowly away; he focussed on building a legacy as opposed to burning the world to the ground. This sense of stillness permeates his final film <\/span>Blue, <\/span><\/i>a narration of the AIDS-related decline in health which eventually claimed Jarman\u2019s life in 1994. There was no visual distraction, only a blue square which flickered recurrently \u2014 initially an ode to Yves Klein which, ironically, became a representation of Jarman\u2019s diminishing vision.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":74476,"id":74476,"title":"The Garden (1990) pic 3 - Courtesy BFI","filename":"The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","filesize":448123,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/why-derek-jarmans-radical-queer-films-still-matter-today\/the-garden-1990-pic-3-courtesy-bfi\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"the-garden-1990-pic-3-courtesy-bfi","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74471,"date":"2019-02-22 17:33:27","modified":"2019-02-22 17:33:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1087,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":93,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1087,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1087,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1087,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1087,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1087,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Garden-1990-pic-3-Courtesy-BFI.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1087}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"The Garden (1990) Courtesy BFI"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Attempts to preserve Jarman\u2019s legacy seemed to become more deliberate as his career went on, and last year I saw their results in real-time as I joined a group of queer kids, artists and punks to watch <\/span>Jubilee <\/span><\/i>in a makeshift London cinema. Together we laughed, cried and cheered as the punks of Jarman\u2019s world fucked up a system built to exclude them. We were inspired by their determination to dance through chaos; they instilled with us a desire to keep pushing, to keep screaming and taking up space in a world that wants to silence us. Like the plants that Jarman left in his beautiful, bittersweet garden, we continue to thrive and feel the benefits of his hardship long after his own life was cruelly cut short. The kinship in that room proved only one thing: that Jarman\u2019s tireless attempts to cultivate his legacy had not been in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jarman Volume Two: 1987 \u2013 1994, a 6-disc Limited Edition Blu-ray box set containing ‘<\/span>The Last of England’<\/span>, ‘<\/span>War Requiem’<\/span>, ‘The Garden’, ‘Edward II’, ‘Wittgenstein’, ‘Blue’\u00a0and ‘Glitterbug’, is released by the BFI on 25 February.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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