I have placed a copy of Derek Jarman's excellent book CHROMA on reserve for your use in the library. It is a fascinating book on color, in very unorthodox format: it contains scrupulously researched history (on pigments, art, cinema, and popular culture), poetic interludes, and personal meditations and meanderings. Jarman wrote most of the book while he was suffering from AIDS, and finished it shortly before he died.
A review of the Derek Jarman retrospective at the Barbican Theatre appeared in Spike Magazine. A comprehensive bibliography of articles on Jarman appears here.
Jarman is one of the most important contemporary filmmakers in Great Britain, if not the world. He was visionary, pioneering, experimental and often overtly political. He was an important artist in the New Romantics group of filmmakers, who worked primarily in 8mm and showed their work at alternative venues and exhibitions. More discussion of his work appears in the Cathode Ray Tube blog.
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