《Smiling In Slow Motion》简介：

Derek Jarman's Smiling in Slow Motion concludes the journey started in Modern Nature, these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Friends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as he races through his last year painting, film-making, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics.

Writing from his Charing Cross Road flat, on his visits to international film festivals, his world famous garden at Dungeness in Kent, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman illuminates an era which seems more ephemeral and out-of-grasp with each passing day.

Smiling in Slow Motion is not a document of illness, regret and resignation, but one of endeavour, remembrance and love.

《Smiling In Slow Motion》摘录：

早期德里克身体还健康时，他在一卷日记的结尾颇为动人地写道： 请阅读我锁进这些书页中的关于世界的思虑；然后放下书，去爱。愿你有一个更好的未来，无顾虑地去爱，并且记得我们也曾爱过。当阴影逼近，却更见星光。