Tilda Swinton, remembering Derek Jarman in a keynote speech at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2002:
“Yet, then, as now, the myth prevailed that there was only ever one mainstream. We were only too happy to know that our audience existed and to hoe the row in peace. Nobody here paid that much attention to us, that’s true: no one ever thought we might make them any money, I suppose.
What grace that constituted. Not to be identified as national product: the intergalactic BFI; ZDF in Germany; MIKADO in Italy; Uplink in Japan.
This was our nation state: this was continuity. We snuck under the fence, looked for – and found – our fellow travellers elsewhere.
Here’s the thought: slice the world longways, along its lines of sensibility, and not straight up and down, through its geographical markers, and company will be yours, young filmmaker.
Company, continuity, identity.”
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