|
|
Article: Derek Jarman 1942-94: a political death. (Obituary)
- Article from:
- Artforum International
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The death of Derek Jarman robs us not only of one of cinema's most imaginative postwar independent directors but of one of Britain's proudest and most indefatigably queer gay men. With the late Angela Carter, Jarman was the greatest poetic visionary of Britain's Thatcher era. He captured with unerring accuracy the sense of inexorably developing corruption and cruelty that since the late '70s has increasingly characterized everyday life here.
Derek was a cornucopia of gifts, talents, skills, enthusiasms, and mysteries. A man of the early 1960s, he was always (sometimes touchingly) committed to the idea of a grand transhistorical sequence of homosexuals, from Plato ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Transcript: British Filmmaker Derek Jarman Dead of AIDS
NPR Morning Edition;
February 22, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... British movie director and gay activist Derek Jarman died of AIDS over the weekend; he was ... screen goes blue as the chimes toll in Derek Jarman's penultimate film, Blue. The screen ... attention on his words about dying of AIDS. DEREK JARMAN, Filmmaker: [voice-over] I'm ...
|
|