Smiling in Slow Motion: The Journals of Derek Jarman, 1991 1994 by Derek Jarman Join us and author, director Neil Bartlett (who has written the introduction to this new Vintage edition) and celebrate Derek Jarman's memoir Smiling in Slow Motion. 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarmans last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest. Written from Jarmans Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride. Derek Jarman (31 January 1942 19 February 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author. As part of this free event we will be leaving the bookshop space at the end of the evening.

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