num_pages: 144
description: British filmmaker author AIDS activist and all-around cultural upstart Jarman has written a moving visually evocative memoir of his life and times. One of the first filmmakers to project an unabashed gay sensibility onto screen Jarman creates here a montage of autobiography interviews and social history that shifts back and forth through time resulting in an intriguing portrait of his personal and artistic growth from the 1940s to the present. Jarman is able to distill the essence of an era with just a few well-chosen anecdotes. He is outraged at what he sees as the complicit passivity of the British government's response to the AIDS epidemic; throughout he drops the uncaring words of government officials like deadly bombs. Some readers may find his honesty brazen and offensive but Jarman is truly a spokesman for his tribe a teacher and a sage who while staring death in the face keeps his eyes open to report back with a deep understanding of what is important to the gay community. Highly recommended.- Jeffery Ingram Newport P.L. Ore.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information Inc.
language: English
title: At Your Own Risk
publisher: The Overlook Press