Jarman Derek. Smiling in Slow Motion

A diary. — University of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8166-7453-4.Part diary, part observation, part memoir — writings from Derek Jarman’s final yearsWritten between 1991 and 1994, and ending just two weeks before his death, Derek Jarman’s entries review friends and enemies as he races through his last years painting, filmmaking, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. Infused throughout with familiar honesty and wry humor, Smiling in Slow Motion is a document of endeavor, remembrance, and love."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