Simon Fisher Turner: In the Shadow of the Sun
The images of
 
In the Shadow of the Sun 
are fused with scarlets, oranges and pinks. The degradation caused by the refilming of multiple images gives them a shimmering mystery / energy, like Monet’s
 
Nympheas
, or haystacks in the sunset. There is no narrative in the film. The first viewers wracked their brains for a meaning instead of relaxing into the ambient tapestry of random images. The language is there and it is conveyed – and you don’t know what to say until you have said it
. 
You can dream of lands far distant
. 
(Derek Jarman,
 
Dancing Ledge
, 1984).
In the Shadow of the Sun
 has been described as Derek Jarman’s ‘Super 8 masterpiece’. It was assembled from a dozen different short films made c. 1972-74, including pieces such as 
Journey to Avebury
 
and 
Fire Island
, which Jarman cut together and superimposed to create a new work. The resulting film is a testament to his experimental boldness, his fondness for revisiting and reimagining past motifs, and to the intensity and brilliance of his vision. In 1981, the renowned group Throbbing Gristle created a new soundtrack for a screening of 
In the Shadow of the Sun
 
at the Berlin Film Festival. Such transformations of Jarman’s film works through music have continued into recent times, with his frequent collaborator Simon Fisher Turner making a new score in 2021 for the version of 
My Very Beautiful Movie
 currently showing at The Hunterian Art Gallery as part of 
Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature
. He also devised new music for the live performance 
Blue Now
, presented at Tramway in November last year as part of the exhibition programme. For this special, one-off event screening of 
In the Shadow of Sun
, Turner will present new music to accompany a stretched version of the film. It is a unique opportunity to see and hear one of Jarman’s key artistic partners continue their creative dialogue.
To mark this occasion, The Hunterian has extended its opening hours so that visitors can see the exhibition before attending the concert.
In the Shadow of the Sun
 
is screened with kind permission of James Mackay and LUMA Foundation.
This event is presented in partnership between Thinking Culture and Music in the University, in response to the Hunterian's exhibition, 
Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature.
Simon Fisher Turner
Composer Simon Fisher Turner is renowned for his film soundtrack work which started with Derek Jarman, for whom he scored many feature films - from Caravaggio (1986), through to Jarman’s final work Blue (1993). Caravaggio began a long relationship with the BFI, and more recently Fisher Turner composed the score for restorations of three silent films, Un Chant D’Amour dir. Jean Genet (1950), The Great White Silence dir. Herbert Ponting (1924) and The Epic of Everest dir. Captain John Noel (1924), winning a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for the soundtrack to The Epic of Everest. He has also composed film music for Mike Hodges, Michael Almareyda, Isao Yamada. His various collaborators over the years include Ruicki Sakamoto, Gina Birch, Deux Filles, The Derek Jarman Lab, and The Elysian Collective. With a career as varied and diverse as his current projects, Simon Fisher Turner began as a young actor in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, and in between then and now has released records under his own name and as The King Of Luxembourg and Deux Filles.
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