Derek Jarman Super 8 / James Mackay.
By: Mackay, James [author.]
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014Description: 288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43243ISBN: 9780500517321 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Jarman, Derek, 1942-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.43 MAC LOC classification: PN1998.3.J3Summary: One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (1986), as well as music videos for The Smiths, the Pet Shop Boys and Marianne Faithfull. He also trained in fine art and a painterly mentality permeates all his work, particularly his experimental Super 8 films. Jarman's producer and collaborator, James Mackay, has painstakingly archived and restored the collection of 92 Super 8s bequeathed to him in order to prevent these rarely seen films being lost for ever. This book features key stills and sequences from the films.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (1986), as well as music videos for The Smiths, the Pet Shop Boys and Marianne Faithfull.
Derek Jarman also trained in fine art and a painterly mentality permeates all his work, particularly his Super 8 films, which show Jarman at his most visually courageous and creative, using prisms, filters and superimposition to produce rich colour and artistically bold compositions. The transient images, isolated like paintings, are the essence of Derek Jarman and the visual vocabulary of a great artist.
Now, Jarman's producer and collaborator, James Mackay, has overseen the restoration of ninety-two Super 8s in order to prevent these rarely seen films being lost for ever. This book features key stills and sequences from the films, as chosen and introduced by Liam Gillick, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sarah Turner, Gina Birch, Matthias Müller, Peter Fillingham, Neil Bartlett and Isaac Julien.
One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman directed cult feature films such as Jubilee (1977) and Caravaggio (1986), as well as music videos for The Smiths, the Pet Shop Boys and Marianne Faithfull. He also trained in fine art and a painterly mentality permeates all his work, particularly his experimental Super 8 films. Jarman's producer and collaborator, James Mackay, has painstakingly archived and restored the collection of 92 Super 8s bequeathed to him in order to prevent these rarely seen films being lost for ever. This book features key stills and sequences from the films.
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Library Journal Review
The evocative selection of stills from pioneering filmmaker Derek Jarman's Super 8 shorts are beguilingly transposed in this coffee-table book. Considerable insight is offered into shorts lasting only a few minutes, particularly as Jarman is better known for feature-length pictures such as Sebastiane (1976), Caravaggio (1986), and Blue (1993). Accompanying essays, including a strong opening piece by MacKay, Jarman's producing partner, offer unique perspective on Jarman's attitudes and ever-evolving technique. MacKay and colorist Tom Russell later delve into the difficulties of preserving, transferring, and digitizing the delicate format. Such shrewd observations and technical details on the transfer process and results will be of particular interest to preservationists. However, more than a few contributions by contemporary artists, some of whom never met Jarman or only experienced his work peripherally, are tenuously linked, offering fleeting mentions of Jarman as inspiration or addressing their own dabbling in the Super 8 process. VERDICT Film scholars and fans of Jarman will appreciate these essays about and alluring stills from his more obscure works. Adam Waldowski, Los Angeles (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.