This page is dedicated to displaying articles that have been written about Derek Jarman - be that academic essays, or published periodicles. To submit an article or
essay, please email: info*at*slowmotionangel.com


SERPENTINE EXHIBITION (external site)
A Times article about the new "Derek Award" and Isaac Julien's film and exhibition at the serpentine. Feb 2008.

THE GENIUS OF DEREK JARMAN (external site)
A Time Out article from February 2008 looking at the legacy of Derek Jarman leading up to the new film "Derek" by Isaac Julien.

A RIGHT ROYAL KNEES UP (external site)
A Guardian Online article on the story behind Jubilee from July 2007.

WHAT COLOUR IS TIME?
A scan from an article in Vertigo Magazine, summer 2007. Stephen Barber talks about Derek. I will recreate this article in the near furute for an (easier to read) html page.

REMEMBERING DEREK (external site)
A Times Online article published 12th May 2007 with comments by many of Derek's collaborators including Tilda Swinton, Ken Russell and Toyah Wilcox.

Influential: DEREK JARMAN
SlowMotionAngel webmaster James Tucker's article on his memories of discovering Derek's Jubilee. 2007.

REMEMBERED - 10 YEARS ON (external site)
A Times Online Article also published in The Times
(London), February 19 2004 remembering Derek Jarman

ESSAY ON BLUE
An art degree essay about Jarman's final film Blue by Des
Hegarty

LETTER TO AN ANGEL (external site)
A speech written by Tilda Swinton dedicated to Derek
Jarman and presented at the Edinburgh Film Festival in
2003. This article was published in the spring 2003 issue
of Vertigo Magazine UK, and also published in the
Guardian newspaper Saturday August 17, 2003. This full
speech appears as an extra feature on Second Sight 2004
DVD release of The Last of England in the UK.

ESSAY BY TONY PEAK (external site)
An essay written by Jarman biographer, Tony Peak -
published on US DVD distributor Criterion website.

VIEWER MAKES MEANING
An essay written by James Tucker
(SlowMotionAngel.com webmaster) as a second year
degree essay looking at the issues around how an
audience perceive and create meanings from films. The
2000 word essay examins Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film
Rope, and Derek Jarman's Edward II to explore issues
surrounding the 'coded' and not so coded representations
of homosexuality.