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Derek
Jarman's At Your Own Risk
I've written a piece about Derek Jarman's book At
Your Own Risk (recently republished by the University of Minnesota
along with some of the director's other writings) over at The
House Next Door. The first paragraph is excerpted below; follow the
link to the House to read the full article, which attempts to grapple
with Jarman's views about aesthetics, sexuality, AIDS, and societal
oppression.
Derek Jarman's films are, already,
such a naked, passionate, intimate portrait of their creator and his
ideas that one wouldn't expect that Jarman would have had much energy
left over to pour into written autobiography. Nevertheless, Jarman was a
prolific writer as well as a filmmaker and artist, and his creative
pursuits in multiple artistic forms constitute a unified body of work;
the books are every bit as essential as the films to those who wish to
understand Jarman. The University of Minnesota Press has thus done a
valuable service in reissuing three of these books: Chroma,
Jarman's collection of writings on color, his 1989-90 diary Modern
Nature, and At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament, a loose
autobiographical book that traces Jarman's experiences of society's
reactions to gayness.
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