Shortly before his death in 1994, Jarman was considering making a film based on Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa which depicts a group of desperate men, abandoned on a raft at sea.
Hans Werner Henzes The Raft of the Medusa is directly inspired by Théodore Géricaults famous painting The German composer sets to music the fate of 150 people who have been shipwrecked and ...