Smiling in Slow Motion - Softcover
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Derek Jarman was one of the most interesting independent film makers of the last quarter of the 20th century. His latest volume of his diaries starts from where his previous volume, Modern Nature, left off, covering the period from May 1991 to February 1994, just a fortnight before his death from an AIDS-related illness. Fans will relish the accounts of back-stage in-fighting over low budgets and impossible timetables, and his acerbic comments on the gay scene. Jarman's zest for, and curiosity about life never diminished, and these last, previously unpublished, writings, penned from his flat in London, the wild and beautiful garden he fashioned in the shadow of Dungeness power station in Kent, and his hospital bed, are a testament to his courage and irreverence in the face of a horrifying illness. Jarman was a one-off, an iconoclast--Smiling in Slow Motion is an acute reminder of his absence. --Christopher Hart
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"The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany--I can call it nothing less--of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace." --Tilda Swinton
"These journals, far from being the product of a morbid defeatism, are on the contrary the life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full. Required reading." --The Times (London)
"These journals, far from being the product of a morbid defeatism, are on the contrary the life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full. Required reading." --The Times (London)
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- PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0816674531
- ISBN 13 9780816674534
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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