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I think it would be marvelous to evaporate. I wish I could take all my works with me. [Laughs.] That's what I'd like to happen; to just disappear completely.
-Derek Jarman
I n the twenty years since Derek Jarman died on 19 February 1994 from complications related to AIDS, there have been numerous efforts to remember, commemorate, and celebrate his life and work. These acts of memory include obituaries and review articles in the gay press, broad- sheets, tabloids, blogs, and academic journals, television programs, and interviews with Jarman's friends and collaborators. Exhibitions, retro- spectives, and screenings of his work have been mounted in the UK and internationally.1 Jarman's painting Ataxia-Aids is Fun (1993) was "first displayed at the Tate Gallery in 1994 to mark Jarman's death" (Martin). Mementos of his life were collected and sold as Reliquary (1996), a lim- ited edition of 200 numbered boxes that contain objects including a stone charm from Jarman's garden at Dungeness and a celluloid section of his last feature film, Blue (1993). Tilda Swinton, Jarman's long-term collabo- rator who appeared in many of his films, wrote "Letter to an Angel"-a public letter to Jarman-that she delivered at the Edinburgh Film Fes- tival (2002); it was also published and incorporated into the soundtrack of Isaac Julien's documentary Derek (2008).2 An award was inaugurated in Jarman's name in 2008 by Film London. The same year also saw the award of a Special Teddy at the twenty-second Queer Film Awards at the Berlin International Film Festival to Tilda Swinton, James Mackay, Isaac Julien, Colin MacCabe, Keith Collins, and Simon Fisher Turner-"who as a 'family', as combatants and allies of British filmmaker Derek Jarman have looked after his heritage [. . . and] also kept his spirit alive" ("Diary"). Jarman has been the subject of biographies by Tony Peake (1999) and Michael Charlesworth (2011) and several documentaries.3 His life and work have also stimulated creative projects, including installations, short films, musical compositions, poems, performances, gardens, and plays.4 Public talks and symposia have proliferated, especially during 2014 as part of the myriad of events collected under the umbrella Jarman2014, "a year-long celebration of [his] life and work" ("Jarman2014"). The last twenty years have also marked the publication of numerous academic books and...