| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Tilda Swinton |
| Event |
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1990. |
| Summary |
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, THE GARDEN was born of director Derek Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV-positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear power plant that overlooks Jarman’s own garden, the point from which his film begins, and a cherished spot which he must keep tending to even as his body begins to betray him. Writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being, THE GARDEN is a baleful and beautiful epistle from the brink of beyond. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction.
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Queer cinema.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Jarman, Derek, film director.
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Swinton, Tilda, actor.
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Kino Lorber (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
12181439 Kanopy |
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