Derek Jarman brings to his films a painter's eye, and with it the technical ingenuity by means of which he has devised, out of the marriage of film and video, a whole new palette of visual effects. An example is the characteristic, stroboscopic style of his most recent films--analysing motion into successions of still images not unlike Muybridge or Marey sequence photographs. Jarman has devised a novel technique to attain the effect. The action is first filmed with a stop-motion camera at the rate of around 3 frames per second. The moving image is then reconstituted by projecting at the same rate, and recording from the screen to video. (It is characteristic of Jarman's practical approach to film problems that he is as delighted by the economy of celluloid the device acheives as by the visual conquest.) In the case of Angelic Conversation, the process of successive transfer from Super-8 to low-band video to high-band video to 35mm film obtained the striking textured effect of the images. Jarman's distinctive color effects are produced by processing black-and-white images on video. To achieve particular effects he will sometimes deliberately trick and confuse the electronic equipment--for example, by substituting a bright green gel for the white card ordinarily required for color correction. At the first sight characterized by a system of repetition, Angelic Conversation never succumbs to monotony. The repetitions tend in fact to be variations which serve to concentrate the attention and heighten the significance of small gesture: the climactic homoerotic love scene achieves powerful effect just through chaste and tender touching and twining of hands. More than earlier films, this one demonstrates the meeting of cineast and painter that gives special character to Jarman's most successful work. Every image is arresting for its compositions, its use of mass and shadow, and of color that is sometimes so elusive that you are momentarily uncertain whether you see it or not. Jarman paints in light.
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Allegedly Jarman's own favourite amongst his movies. WARNING: ITALIAN HARDSUBSDerek Jarman - The Angelic Conversation (1985 - DVDrip - ITA hardsubs).avi, 693Mb
video: 496x384 01:17:29 25fps XviD 1.1Mbps
audio: 48KHz 01:17:29 Stereo 123Kbps mp3
(they were on the DVD, I couldn't do anything about it. Otoh there's very little speech in the movie)
Can someone update the Derek Jarman's filmography with both this one and Blue? Thanks
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Derek Jarman - The Angelic Conversation (1985 - DVDrip - ITA hardsubs).avi 
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