A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Derek Jarman (1942–1994) was a legendary English artist and filmmaker, best known for his avant-garde art films and also renowned as a set designer, gardener, author, and gay rights activist.
A pioneering gay filmmaker pushed the boundary of experimental cinema and provided some of the first instances of explicit depictions of gay themes in film. His representation of queer sexuality draws on art history and gives a new twist to historical figures, all rendered with a contemporary, punk-inspired sensibility that captures the spirit of street culture in England circa 1970s and 1980s.
CARAVAGGIO was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement.
Filmography
The Garden (1990); War Requiem (1989); Sebastiane (1976)
