Tuesday 19 April 2011

Derek Jarman + Pet Shop Boys

Music videos, despite having been a vibrant art form for several decades, have been almost completely absent from my blog and I feel embarrassed. But time to remedy this. Since these are busy days at work I don't have time to write much now, but I will just share the videos that Derek Jarman did with Pet Shop Boys. Pet Shop Boys's music and projects have been more important to me than most artists or writers so they need to be acknowledged, and Derek Jarman is of course one of the key filmmakers in Britain, and in queer cinema. There are three videos, with songs from the album Actually (1987), It's a sin, Rent and King's Cross (a particular favourite).