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'A cinema of small gestures':

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Derek Jarmans Super 8 - image, alchemy, individuation

Christopher Hauke

Leiden

Brill

The Super-8 films of Derek Jarman (1942-94) are discussed in the light of the artist's involvement with gay politics and his sense of being an outsider. This led him to identify with elements in Jung's psychology, especially his work on alchemy. Jarman's manipulation of Super-8 film images was comparable to an alchemical processing of the material contributing to his personal development - a process that Jung called individuation. The author argues that Jarman's radical approach to filmmaking is not only an active challenge to the assumption of film images as representative of reality but, in the hands of a politically gay filmmaker, also challenges normative assumptions of sexuality. The Super-8 films of Derek Jarman (1942-94) are discussed in the light of the artist's involvement with gay politics and his sense of being an outsider. This led him to identify with elements in Jung's psychology, especially his work on alchemy. Jarman's manipulation of Super-8 film images was comparable to an alchemical processing of the material contributing to his personal development - a process that Jung called individuation. The author argues that Jarman's radical approach to filmmaking is not only an active challenge to the assumption of film images as representative of reality but, in the hands of a politically gay filmmaker, also challenges normative assumptions of sexuality.

2014

159-164

International Journal of Jungian Studies

6/2

1940-9060

alchemy;

Derek;

film;

gay politics;

Jarman;

Jungian psychology;

Super 8 camera;

Christopher Hauke

10.1080/19409052.2014.905969

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