Дерек Джармен – лучшие книги

«Хрома» — размышления о цветовом многообразии знаменитого британс- кого режиссера и художника Дерека Джармена (1942–1994). В этой книге, написанной в 1993 году, за год до смерти, теряющий зрение Джармен использует все ресурсы письма в попытке передать сложный и неулови- мый аспект предмета, в отношении которого у него накопился опыт целой жизни. В своем характерном стиле — лирическом соединении классичес- кой теории, анекдотичности и поэзии — Джармен проводит читателя сквозь цветовой спектр, представляя каждый цвет олицетворением эмоций, пробуждая воспоминания и сны. Он объясняет использование цвета в изобразительном искусстве — от…

Дневники одного из наиболее оригинальных независимых режиссеров Европы, художника и иконы своего времени с предисловием звезды английской литературы Оливии Лэнг. В своих личных записях Джармен исследует природу искусства, политики, жизни и смерти. «”Современная природа” — моя самая любимая книга. Я перечитывала ее множество раз, и она повлияла на меня как ничто иное», — пишет Лэнг. Каждый год сад Дерека Джармена в Дангенессе привлекает сотни посетителей — это странное и ветреное место, маленький сад рядом со скромной Хижиной Перспективы. На гальке пляжа Джармен вырастил всевозможные растения, о которых подробно говорит в книге,…

From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in Dancing Ledge provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses into this iconoclastic filmmaker's life and times.

'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.'
In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fisherman's hut on the desert sands of Dungeness. It was to be a home and refuge for Jarman throughout his HIV diagnosis, and it would provide the stage for one of his most enduring, if transitory projects - his garden. Conceived of as a 'pharmacopoeia' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of fascination and wonder.
Pharmacopoeia brings together the best of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage. Told through journal entries, poems and fragments of prose, it paints a portrait of Jarman's personal and artistic reliance on the space Dungeness offered him, and shows the cycle of the years spent there in one moving collage.

'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...'

Derek 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 catalogued 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 festivals, his world famous garden at Dungeness in Kent, and finally from his 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.