Stuart Marshall

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Stuart Marshall (born May 7, 1949 in Manchester , † May 31, 1993 ) was a British film director .

life and work

Stuart Marshall was born in England and studied art in Hornsey and at the University of Wales, Newport . He did his master's degree in composition and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier in the USA. Marshall has taught at Northumbria University and the Chelsea College of Art and Design .

Marshall was a founding member of London Video Arts , a member of the Film and Video Panel of the Arts Council and an assessor at the Council for National Academic Awards . He was active in the fields of new music , video art , performance , installation , taught and wrote essays and articles on film, video and sexual politics. Marshall was an AIDS activist.

Bright Eyes (1984) is about homosexuality and the historical and social context of AIDS. The film was shown at documenta 8 in 1987 .

The film Desire (1989) is a study of sexuality in Germany between 1910 and 1945, about the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis. The filming location is the Flossenbürg concentration camp .

Marshall wrote the screenplay for A Bit of Scarlet (1997), directed by Andrea Weiss and starring Ian McKellen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video Data Bank Stuart Marshall Died 1993 , accessed March 4, 2016.
  2. ^ Lux online, Rebecca Dobbs Stuart Marshall , accessed March 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 319; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  4. ↑ Independent, Rebecca Dobbs Obituary: Stuart Marshall , accessed March 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1993