John Maybury (born 25 March 1958, London) is an award-winning British filmmaker. He studied at North East London Polytechnic and St Martins and designed sets for Derek Jarman’s ‘Jubilee’, and worked with him on ‘The Last of England’, ‘War Requiem’ and ‘The Tempest’. By the early 1980s, Maybury was; leading light of the British underground film movement. Along with his equally precocious contemporary student Cerith Wyn Evans, Maybury pioneered with a style that was unashamedly exotic, with influences from Kenneth Anger to Jean Cocteau. The movement’s first major show, entitled A Certain Sensibility, was at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London in 1981. Through the 1980s he produced a number of short films and music videos including the video for Sinéad O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ which was voted #35 in a Channel 4 poll of the greatest pop music videos. In 1998 he produced his first full length feature Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon a biopic on the life of Francis Bacon. In 2005 he directed The Jacket and in 2008 his film The Edge of Love, a biopic on the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas starring Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys and Keira Knightley premiered. He also directed the final episode of the critically acclaimed HBO/BBC Rome series. In 2005 he was listed as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.
Films A to Z
Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
- Runtime:
- 60 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1993
- Country:
- Großbritannien
- Director:
- Cast:
- Alana
Aiden Brady
Rupert Everett
Julia Fodo
Mark Lawrence
Lola
Mary Martyr
Chiara Menage
Felix Schroer
Seb Sharples
Shyrene
Tilda Swinton
Tallulah - Production Company:
- John Mabury, Chiara Menage
- Berlinale Section:
- Panorama
- Berlinale Category:
- Essay Film
- Teddy Award:
- Teddy Jury Award
The gay lifestyle is examined from the point of view of both gays and straights in British gay lampoon which satirizes the effect the media has on modern society. (moviefone.com)
This film shifts us in the 90's by expanding the tradition of gay experimental cinema using the latest digital technology. Maybury has created astounding images of graet beauty of gender bending, male rape, fag bashing by media, Aids, erotica and gay love, that touch us all. (TEDDY jury statement)
BIOGRAFIE John Maybury
FILMOGRAFIE John Maybury (selection)
1993 Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies