The Derek Jarman Lab
was founded in 2012 at Birkbeck University of London. The concept was to teach both students and lecturers to make personal films about abstract ideas. This is linked to Chris Marker's aesthetic of shooting almost randomly, with the film taking shape both in the shooting and, most importantly, in the editing. Bartek Dziadosz runs the DJLand Christopher Roth has been a close collaborator since the beginning. When we started making these films, the focus was on the good things. On utopias, on cinema and on the question of how to change society with culture.