As part of the artistic programme at DCA, we enjoy asking the artists exhibiting in the gallery what films they would like to have screened in our cinema to coincide with their exhibition. The selections are sometimes surprising but also consistently illuminating of their practice. During the summer this is reflected with a particularly diverse array of films . . . reflecting three distinct exhibitions and fifteen artists on show.

Selected by Susanne Nielsen, The Garden depicts the world of the late great artist gardener. The Garden is one of Derek Jarman’s most personal films and was shot at his beloved ‘atomic’ garden in Dungeness. The story reflects on press and government intrusion on gay life and is also a coming to terms of his own HIV positive condition. Jarman famously rejected a knighthood from Margaret Thatcher, instead accepting canonization from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as St. Derek of Dungeness of the Order of Celluloid Kings.