The Pet Shop Boys went on tour and accidentally made art history with Derek Jarman.
The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of iconoclastic images he created for the background projections. Stunning, specially shot sequences (featuring actors, the Pet Shop Boys, and friends of Jarman) contrast with documentary montages of nature, all skillfully edited to music tracks.
Direction
Jarman turns a pop tour into experimental cinema canon.
Cinematography
Super 8 poetry that makes nature footage feel revolutionary.
Editing
Seamless marriage of image and synth-pop, pure synesthesia.
Director
Derek Jarman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This collaboration emerged from Jarman's friendship with Neil Tennant, cementing a bridge between queer avant-garde cinema and mainstream pop that still resonates in artists like Christine and the Queens.
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