The Garden Film Screening

The Garden (1990) Film Screening

Doors open 2pm film screening at 3pm with an introduction by Gill Addison.

This intimate insight into Jarman's inner world was shot on fragile Super8 with the help of friends and collaborators, movingly utilising a cast of iconic, religious figures that include Jesus, Judas and the Madonna. Shifting from the personal to the political it culminates in a near-mythic exploration of sexual repression at the end of the 20th century. Increasingly ill by this point, Jarman faces his mortality with poetry and dignity.

The Garden is a film which uses religion, in particular the Passion of Christ, to fuel the discussion about the repression of sexuality in the world. A panoply of events and characters, with the underlying theme of homosexual discrimination. The film is loosely based on the story of Christ's crucifixion, except the figure of Christ is replaced with a gay male couple. The film has been seen as an allegory of the suffering gays were going through during the AIDS crisis and their ostracism by most of society.

The bar is open from 2pm and tea and coffee are also available