Editing Derek Jarman (section)

==Other works==
[[File:Derek Jarman's garden.JPG|thumb|left|Jarman's garden, [[Prospect Cottage]], [[Dungeness]], in May 2007]]
Jarman's work broke new ground in creating and expanding the fledgling form of "the [[pop video]]" in England (eg. using his father's [[WWII]] [[archival footage]] (one of the first people to use a colour [[home movie]] camera which included the director as a toddler) on the early version of [[Wang Chung (band)|Wang Chung]]'s "[[Dance Hall Days]]"), and in [[gay rights]] activism.<ref>[https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/soundtrack-mix-28-forever-blue-an-ode-to-derek-jarman Soundtrack Mix #28: Forever Blue: An Ode to Derek Jarman on Notebook|MUBI]</ref>

Jarman also directed the 1989 tour by the UK duo [[Pet Shop Boys]]. By pop concert standards, this was a highly theatrical event, with costume and specially shot films accompanying the individual songs. Jarman was the stage director of [[Sylvano Bussotti]]'s opera ''[[Sylvano Bussotti|L'Ispirazione]]'', first staged in Florence in 1988.

Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden at [[Prospect Cottage]], created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of [[Dungeness nuclear power station]]. The cottage is built in vernacular style in timber, with tar-based weatherproofing, like others nearby. Raised wooden text on the side of the cottage is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of [[John Donne]]'s 1633 poem, ''[[The Sun Rising (poem)|The Sun Rising]]''. The cottage garden was made by arranging [[flotsam]] washed up nearby, interspersed with [[Endemism|endemic]] salt-loving beach plants, both set against the bright shingle. The garden has been the subject of several books. At this time, Jarman also began painting again.<ref>''Evil Queen: The Last Paintings'', 1994.</ref>

In 2020 the [[Garden Museum]] in London held an exhibition called [https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/derek-jarman-my-gardens-boundaries-are-the-horizon/ "Derek Jarman: my Garden's Boundaries are the Horizon"]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garden Museum |title=DEREK JARMAN: MY GARDEN'S BOUNDARIES ARE THE HORIZON |date=4 July 2020 |url=https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/derek-jarman-my-gardens-boundaries-are-the-horizon/}}</ref> parts of the garden and Prospect Cottage were recreated for the exhibition as well as artifacts from Jarman's estate.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Oliver |last=Wainwright |author-link=Oliver Wainwright|title=Blooms with a view: Derek Jarman's magical garden gets a transplant |newspaper=The Guardian |date=21 July 2020 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/derek-jarman-prospect-cottage-dungeness-kent-garden-museum-london }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[Frieze (magazine)|FRIEZE]] |first= Jennifer |last=Higgie|author-link=Jennifer Higgie|title=The Worlds of Derek Jarman's Garden |date=3 September 2020 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/worlds-derek-jarmans-garden}}</ref>

Jarman was the author of several books including his [[autobiography]] ''Dancing Ledge'' (1984), which details his life until the age 40. He provides his own insight on the history of gay life in London (1960s-1980s), discusses his own acceptance of his homosexuality at age 16 and accounts of the financial and emotional hardships of a life devoted to filmmaking.<ref>Jarman, Derek, and Shaun Allen. ''Dancing Ledge''. Minneapolis: Minn., 2010. Print.</ref> A collection of poetry ''A Finger in the Fishes Mouth'', two volumes of diaries ''Modern Nature'' and ''Smiling In Slow Motion'' and two treatises on his work in film and art ''The Last of England'' (also published as ''Kicking the Pricks'') and ''Chroma''.

Other notable published works include film scripts (''Up in the Air'', ''Blue'', ''War Requiem'', ''Caravaggio'', ''Queer Edward II'' and ''Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script/The Derek Jarman Film''), a study of his garden at Dungeness ''Derek Jarman's Garden'', and ''At Your Own Risk'', a defiant celebration of gay sexuality.