Jubilee - Free Movie (1978, UK)

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If sold out, tickets are available outside the Domain Theatre from one hour before each screening | All advance tickets must be scanned 10 minutes before the film starts. Latecomers will not be admitted 15 minutes after the start of the screening.

Director Derek Jarman, Protected content , UK | Protected content , 8mm, 16mm-to-digital, colour, rated R18+

A nihilistic tale of punk and time-travel, with a soundtrack by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Brian Eno.
Summoning punk’s ‘no future’ attitude, Jubilee presents an apocalyptic vision of a nation in chaos. Made at the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s Protected content Jubilee celebrations, Jarman’s film is a defiant spit in the eye of the royals. Queen Elizabeth I is transported Protected content into the future and discovers Great Britannia in rack and ruin. Buckingham Palace has become a recording studio, and a marauding gang of misfits skip from one revolutionary act to another.
Jubilee appalled British punks, who interpreted the film as bourgeois and exploitative. Vivienne Westwood claimed that Jarman had betrayed the scene. Jarman maintained that the punk generation was comprised of ‘petit bourgeois art students, who a few months ago were David Bowie and Bryan Ferry look-alikes [...]"