A legendary Scottish filmmaker who has made only one feature and three shorts from 1972 to 1991, Bill Douglas has nevertheless drawn praise from such noted directors as François Truffaut and Satyajit Ray. In 1972, Douglas won the Best First Film award at the Venice Film Festival for his affecting documentary My Childhood, yet in the years that followed, his work would become sporadic at best. While his 1987 film Comrades earned Douglas The Independent's Film of the Year award, it was also his last film to date. In this documentary, director Andy Kimpton-Nye explores the life of a filmmaker who rose from abject poverty to become one of the most unique storytellers in the world of cinema

Dir. Andy Kimpton Nye/UK 2004/VIDEO/60 mins + screening with a surprise short! Made with the co operation of Jarman's sister and closest collaborators Christopher Hobbs & Tilda Swinton, this documentary will make you want to see Derek's films all over again or start making your own Jarmanesque masterpieces. With plenty of surprises... from Tariq Azi's revelation of a gay tribe in Pakistan to Jarman's insistence that you only need 32 sequences to make a movie, this is a timely celebration of the life of an artist whose death from AIDS ten years ago marked the end of radical British art cinema. It also includes, naturally, the best bits of Sebastiane!