Pride at IMMA: Lecture & Book Launch Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage by Gilbert McCarragher

Name: Pride at IMMA: Lecture & Book Launch Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage by Gilbert McCarragher
Start: 2024-06-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art

Schedule

Thu Jun 27 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art | Dublin, DN

Free, booking required
In 2018, photographer Gilbert McCarragher was asked to create a visual record of Prospect Cottage, the iconic Dungeness house of artist, filmmaker and gay rights activist, Derek Jarman. Situated on the austere and windswept shingle beach near the looming nuclear power station, the house and surrounding garden has become an artwork in its own right, drawing Jarman devotees and curious onlookers from around the globe. Gilbert will present an illustrated lecture describing his project, followed by a conversation with Seán Kissane, curator of the 2019 exhibition, Derek Jarman: PROTEST! The lecture will be followed by a book launch.
The event will be accompanied by a screening:
Screening
Derek Jarman,
The Angelic Conversation, 1985
Colour, sound; 78mins
©1985 Derek Jarman / BFI / Courtesy of the BFI National Archive
Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation 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.
Find out more here: https://imma.ie/whats-on/summer-at-imma-talks/