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Article: Derek.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
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- Cineaste
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- December 22, 2008
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When Derek Jarman died of AIDS in 1994, he left behind one of the contemporary avant-garde's most stunning bodies of work--films, paintings, writings, set designs, music videos--as well as an army of close friends and collaborators. Continuing to be inspired by his personality no less than his work, they have watched over his legacy with a mixture of caution and generosity that tends to nourish precisely the kind of memoir exemplified by Isaac Julien's Derek. Authoritative yet unpossessive, the near-feature-length portrait does everything a biographical tribute should: it lets the artist speak in voice and through his work, which, lusciously excerpted, provides the film's ...