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Derek Jarman: ‘The Angelic Conversation’ with music by Coil, from 1985
11.11.2011
07:18 pm
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Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation, plays Super 8 imagery against a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets, in its “exploration of love and desire between two men”.  Jarman descibed the film as:

“a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.”

The sonnets are read by Judi Dench, and the soundtrack is by Coil.

Bonus: Footage of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, along with David Tibet, Othon Mataragas and Ernesto Tomasini, rehearsing and performing a new soundtrack to The Angelic Conversation for a special screening at the Turin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, in 2008.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
With thanks to Muriel Couteau
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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11.11.2011
07:18 pm
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