The Garden screenshot © Artificial Eye
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Pete Lee-Wilson, Michael Gough
Production Company: Basilisk Communications, Channel 4, British Screen Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Uplink, Sohbi Kikaku, Space Shower TV
Kent Locations Used: Dungeness
The Garden (1990) is one of avant-garde director Derek Jarman’s (Caravaggio, Edward II) final films, and intertwines an almost wordless story about two gay lovers who are arrested, severely humiliated, tortured and killed with religious imagery.
Tilda Swinton (DEREK (2008), Doctor Strange (2016)) stars with narration by Michael Gough (Batman & Robin, Top Secret!)
The Garden screenshot © Artificial Eye
The film is set against the backdrop of Dungeness, which had been Jarman’s home since the late 1980s.
Dungeness in the Shepway district of Kent is one of the largest shingle landscapes in the world. It boasts sound mirrors, two lighthouses and power station and is a popular film location having previously been seen on screen in The Poison Tree (2012), Parade’s End (2012) and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – Natural Causes (2006).
The Garden was released in 1990 and is now available to buy on DVD.
For more information about Kent’s Filming History please visit our Movie Map.
