Jarman - a painter, theatre designer, director, film maker and
gardener - concludes a journey that began with Modern Nature.
Smiling in Slow Motion documents his diary entries from May 1991
until February 1994, concluding two weeks before his death. This is
a beautifully produced book capturing his decline at the hands of
AIDS with the scattered hand-written entries; his perfect
handwriting turns to scrawled entries - lost of order and
structure, the final diary hand written despite his blindness. Yet
these entries are full of affection for his lover - HB - his first
'true love' at the age of 50. This book startlingly honest,
covering the art world and his activities in 'queer politics',
donning sequins in a good humoured gay law reform march. Smiling in
Slow Motion charts the decline of a vibrant man to his bed in St
Bartholomew's Hospital, tired of it all. And yet, always devoted,
always striving through his art, the memoir is never regretful. It
brims with Jarman's joy of his life, his days viewed as
extraordinary and exceptional, HB's beauty and kindness captured in
at once joyous and deeply moving photographs. All Jarman's journals
were marked with the incription 'Reward if found'. This is a
rewarding memoir; as Jarman shows, the darkness of illness may
fall, but the light in loving and being loved will leave you
smiling at life. (Kirkus UK)
'For days now I have tried to start this diary, but the clatter of my existence has warned me off; the first mark on the page eludes me. . . 'D erek Jarman's SMILING IN SLOW MOTION concludes the journey started in MODERN NATURE, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catal ogued as he races through his last year painting, film-making, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics.
Writing from his Charing Cross Road flat, on his visits to international film festivales, his world famous garden at Dungeness in Kent, and finally from hios bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman illuminates an era which seems more ephemeral and out-of-grasp with each passing day. SMILING IN SLOW MOTION is not a document of illness, regret and resignation, but one of endeavour, remembrance and love.
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