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Derek Jarman

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Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!


— Derek Jarman


#film #movies #shakespeare #love

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.


— Derek Jarman


#defensive #homosexual #hopelessly #ideal #like

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.


— Derek Jarman


#am #death #dying #i #i am

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.


— Derek Jarman


#away #cannot #morphine #ostracism #pain

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.


— Derek Jarman


#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit






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the son of Elizabeth Evelyn (née Puttock) and Lancelot Elworthy Jarman. Toyah Wilcox. His artistic practice in the early 1980s reflected these commitments perhaps most famously in The Angelic Conversation (1985) a film in which the imagery is accompanied by a voice (that of Dame Judi Dench) reciting Shakespeare's sonnets obviously chosen for their openness to a homoerotic re-reading.

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