Jon Savage: Against The Tide
February 15, 2008 – 3:57 am‘Derek Jarman died exactly 14 years ago, after a long and protracted illness that he chose not to hide. During those years, Aids was a major taboo: a site of hysteria, fear and ignorance, a generator of prejudice. But Jarman had already put his life into his art, so why not his slow death? Giving the unmentionable a name and a face and a voice was, as narrator Tilda Swinton says in the new documentary Derek, a “genius stroke” of grace.
‘A wish to “dispel secrecy” was very much behind everything that Jarman did. From the 1987 release of The Last of England on, there was an incredible outpouring of books, paintings, collages, queer agitprop actions and films - including Edward II, The Garden, and Blue - as well as the world-famous garden at Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent.’
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