WITCHES by DEREK JARMAN - 1979
Exclusive scenes from the video - a promotion film for Marianne Faithfull's 1979 LP, Broken English - made by controversial film maker Derek Jarman, a naked man makes lot to Marilyn on a makeshift altar.
The sequence for the Witche's song track, open with Marianne Faithfull outside St. Paul's Cathedral being beckoned by a sober-suited man wearing a paper sack with eyes-slits over his head.
The scene moves to a derelict site where a coven of men and women dance hand-in-hand around as smokey fire.
The men are dressed in suits with their heads covered in pape sacks, The women, who include a female dwarf, are in white sleeveless dresses, their faces covered in golden masks.
One man, his face in shadow, is dressedin a cardinal's red hat and cape. He blessed Marilyn and the young man, offers them a drink from a sea shell and places a ring on Marilyn's wedding finger. The film ends with the coven walking away from the still-smouldering fire.
The existence of t he 1979 film comes as a complete surpreise to Marilyn's publicist, Carol Garner who says : "I insisted he tells me everything about his past so that I can comment when itens like this come up, but he has never mentioned the video to me"
But Marilyn, who became an "instant" pop star when his first single Calling Your Name went to number three last year, remembers making the film. He says : "I think Derek Jarman is a wonderful director, I really admire his work and he is verY artistic."
And Derek Jarman says of Marilyn : " It was uncanny. He really did look the part. You heard people saying ' It was Marilyn Monroe?'
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