Colin MacCabe

Colin MacCabe chairs the Derek Jarman Lab. From 1985 to 2008 he produced features, documentaries, and installations for directors as varied as Terence Davies, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, and Chris Marker. Since 2008 he has devoted himself to research-led filmmaking, establishing the Derek Jarman Lab with Bartek Dziadosz, Lily Ford, and Sarah Joshi in 2012. For the Lab he has produced all the films for The Seasons in Quincy and directed Ways of Listening and A Song for Politics. He is also a critic who, in 2017, published Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature (OUP) and, with Adam Bartos, Remembering Chris Marker (OR Books). His most recent publication is Keywords for Today (2019; ed. by Colin MacCabe and Holly Yanacek). His most recent film is Keywords for Today (2020).