The Garden

12A

This intimate insight into Jarman's inner world was shot on fragile Super8 with the help of friends and collaborators, movingly utilising a cast of iconic, religious figures that include Jesus, Judas and the Madonna.

Shifting from the personal to the political it culminates in a near-mythic exploration of sexual repression at the end of the 20th century. Increasingly ill by this point, Jarman faces his mortality with poetry and dignity.

Presented on 16mm by Lydia Bielby, who will deliver an introduction before the film. Lydia will also be running a creative 16mm workshop earlier in the day with limited tickets available. If you purchase a ticket to the creative workshop, you will be entitled to free entry to The Garden.

Supported by University of Leeds.

Lydia Beilby is an film artist, curator and educator based in Edinburgh, whose practice centralises small-gauge photochemical film making practices, photography and the creative repurposing of archival ephemera. Driven by the radical possibilities of a small-scale, DIY, collaborative practice rooted in eco-consciousness, she is also the co-founder of artist-run photochemical film lab, Labo Spirale and artists' collective Screen Bandita.