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Toad Lickers Film Club: The Garden

  • The Rose Hill 70 Rose Hill Terrace Brighton, England, BN1 4JL United Kingdom (map)

TUESDAY 11th FEBRUARY | 7pm | £10 ADV / £7 + BOOKING FEE

Inside his modest, sparsely-furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams.

Join us in February to take a journey down the coast this LGBTQIA+ History Month in Derek Jarman's The Garden. Made in 1990, near the end of his life, this intimate insight into Jarman's inner world was shot on fragile Super8 with the help of friends and collaborators, movingly utilising a cast of iconic, religious figures that include Jesus, Judas and the Madonna.

Shifting from the personal to the political, it culminates in a near-mythic exploration of sexual repression at the end of the 20th century. Increasingly ill by this point, Jarman faces his mortality with poetry and dignity.

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Toad Lickers Collective are an arts organisation based in Sussex, exploring contemporary culture, alternative histories focused on working class history, folklore and the arts. We host Toad Lickers Film Club every second Tuesday of the month at The Rose Hill in Brighton.

Join us in 2025 for a cinematic journey through England’s green and maybe not so pleasant land.

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Doors: 7pm
Short film/ talk: 7.30pm
Screening: 8pm