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Play, download and edit the free video Julian Sands reads from Derek Jarmans Journals.

In a project supported by Art Fund, we have invited a number of Derek Jarman’s collaborators and friends to reflect on his legacy through artefacts in our current exhibition. First is actor Julian Sands, reading poetry from Jarman's journals.

Julian Sands met Derek Jarman in the late 1970s when he was still a student studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama. As Sands experimented in writing, acting and directing films, Jarman became a great friend and creative mentor, encouraging him to explore different strands of film-making.

When Jarman was asked by Marianne Faithfull’s record company to make a number of videos to promote her new album Broken English, working in both 16mm and super-8 footage, he appointed Sands as his assistant to aid him with the experimental music video format. When David Bowie didn’t turn up to play the part of the Devil in Broken English Derek said, “Well, listen, Julian, you’re devilish. You can play it!” Sands remembers wearing a strange death mask, conveying the character’s body language in a Bowie-ish way.

They also collaborated together writing a script for B Movie; Little England/A Time of Hope (1981).

Soundscape by Simon Fisher Turner.

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