Smiling in Slow Motion - Journals, 1991-1994

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The TimesSmiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest.Written from Jarman's Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Jarman, Jarman Derek
• Assisted by: Neil Bartlett (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781784875169
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-516-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: The Journals of Derek Jarman
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Of specific Gay interest, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Relating to gay people, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects