Derek Jarman is indirectly a pivotal figure during this edition of the Courtisane festival. The British artist and gardener’s work resonates today perhaps more than ever.

In the silent avant-garde film Garden of Luxor, he creates an imaginary Arabian garden by superimposing various images like old postcards from Egypt, and discarded images from ancient sword-and-sandal epics. This strange garden gets destroyed occasionally by a man with a whip, or by people smoking and eating insects. This is Jarman’s take on the Garden of Luxor and its mysteries.