It's Not A Sin – The Music Videos Of Derek Jarman
The Queen is Dead (The Smiths) Ask (The Smiths) 1969 (Easterhouse) Whistling in the Dark (Easterhouse) Out of Hand (The Mighty Lemon Drops) I Cry Too (Bob Geldof) In the Pouring Rain (Bob Geldof) It's a Sin (Pet Shop Boys) Rent (Pet Shop Boys) So Young (Suede) Little Emerald Bird (Patti Smith) The Next Life (Suede)
Derek Jarman (1942–1994) was a pioneering figure in the history of the music video, producing his earliest works before the launch of MTV. His highly visual, camp-inflected style and his synthesis of short film form and music video form have since become defining features of the genre while his collaborations with Pet Shop Boys, Marianne Faithfull and The Smiths can be regarded as early prototypes of the contemporary visual album.
Curated and presented by producer James Mackay, It’s Not A Sin brings together Jarman's 1980s music videos, in which new wave, post-punk and synthpop intersect with his distinctive visual language: slow motion, superimposition, corporeal imagery, symbolic staging and anarchic theatricality. The videos also serve as a document of Britain's urban decay and queer counterculture of the period.
James Mackay is present at the screening.