Derek Jarman at 80

I spent most of today digitally editing Super 8 footage filmed at Dungeness in 2009, adding audio recorded in 2020 at Slapton Sands. This evening I noticed from IG posts that it would have been Derek Jarman’s 80th birthday.

The image above was snapped from the window of a crew bus as we passed Prospect Cottage heading home at the end of a corporate job filming the Dungeness power station in 1989. Jarman filmed The Garden that year and you can just see the actual garden to the left of the cottage.

The picture was taken on Polaroid instant B&W reversal 35mm.