Living Canvas at IMMA - Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation, 1985

Name: Living Canvas at IMMA - Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation, 1985
Start: 2024-06-28T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-30T17:30:00+01:00
Location: IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art

Schedule

Fri Jun 28 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Jun 30 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art | Dublin, DN

Location: Front Lawn
Free, no booking required.
Living Canvas at IMMA is a partnership between IMMA and IPUT Real Estate, Dublin’s leading property investment company and supporter of the arts, that brings Europe’s largest digital art screen to the grounds of IMMA. The two year programme presents contemporary art films and moving image works by Irish and international artists.
About the film
Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation (1985) is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarman’s films. With his painter’s eye, Jarman conjured, in a beautiful palette of light, colour and texture, an evocative and radical visualisation of Shakespeare’s love poems. Of the 154 sonnets written by Shakespeare, most were written to an unnamed young man, commonly referred to as the Fair Youth. Here, Judi Dench’s emotive readings of 14 sonnets are coupled with ethereal sequences; figures on seashores, by streams and in colourful gardens. The disruption of these magical scenes with images of barren and threatening landscapes echoes perfectly the celebration and torment of love explored in the sonnets. Shot on Super-8 before being transferred to 35mm film, the unique technical approach results in a striking aesthetic, with Coil’s languorous soundtrack completing the intoxicating effect.
Times
Fridays. 10am - 5.30pm
Saturdays: 10am - 5.30pm
Sundays: 12noon - 5.30pm

Discover more here: https://imma.ie/whats-on/living-canvas-at-imma/
Image: Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation, 1985; Film still © 1985 BFI / Courtesy of the BFI National Archive