Film
The Angelic Conversation
Saturday, Dec 6, 2008
3 p.m.
Additional Info
1985, 78 min.
Support for the Derek Jarman film series is provided by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund.
Image: Derek Jarman, The Angelic Conversation (still), 1985; photo courtesy the British Film Institute
This experimental film features Judi Dench narrating Shakespeare sonnets over stop motion images of a man seeking out his lover. The delicate, hypnotic and eerie dream world is accompanied with a soundtrack created by the industrial drone band Coil.