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Film maker Derek Jarman has been celebrated at an event in Islington to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.

Film maker Derek Jarman has been celebrated at an event in Islington to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.

Thirty years on from the landmark broadcast of Derek Jarman’s Blue, BFI curator Simon McCallum retraces the extraordinary creative journey behind the queer artist’s testament to life and love in the time of AIDS.

This screenplay carves the artist’s own use of blue into the canon. It is an endless performance that one can step into at any moment.

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

Phyllis Marie Lawson was born 92 years ago in Brockton, Mass., and grew up in Campello, the Swedish neighborhood.

Phyllis Marie Lawson was born 92 years ago in Brockton, Mass., and grew up in Campello, the Swedish neighborhood.

Derek Jarman, , 199 Join us on Wednesday 11 August at 6pm for the last of our series of film screenings associated with our current exhibition, Crossings. Like the works in the exhibition, these films have been selected for their relevance as we grapple with the effects of global lockdowns and the heightened anxieties generated by events of 2020, films that register the polarities of inside and outside, illness and health, public and private. As filmmaker Derek Jarman’s health deteriorated d...

Numismatic Musings on the Staten Island Ferry   The half-hour that I spend every workday morning and evening on the ferry traversing the five miles of the Upper Bay of Staten Island to Manhattan and back again affords plenty of time to enjoy the views, catch up on reading, or simply ponder the history of the city and its port. The Staten Island Ferry remains the best public transportation option around: free to all passengers and plenty of space to socially distance on the 300-foot-long, m...