"The actress, who starred in director Jarman's Caravaggio in 1986, has been celebrated in a new exhibition, documenting her career, in Amsterdam. Tilda Swinton - Ongoing, runs at the Eye Filmmuseum until February and explores the Oscar-winner's work with filmmakers such as Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg and Jim Jarmusch, as well as Jarman. Included in the displays are previously unseen works from Jarman, including Super 8 footage of the actress."
"Asked about the element of grieving in aspects of the exhibition, including losing Jarman in 1994, Swinton revealed that she attended 43 funerals that year. She was only 33. "One of them was Derek's in the February but that was what our life was like then, and it bears repeating because I know there's a younger generation that has somehow missed out on knowing enough about it.""
""It was at a certain point. As a young person, that was a sort of bedrock of a lot of my creative life. And my exhibition, I have to say, has got a lot of ghosts in it. It's all about phantoms and surviving the departures of people, [while] holding them close. How do we survive things? How do we go on?""
Tilda Swinton recalled attending 43 funerals in a single year during the height of the AIDS pandemic, including Derek Jarman's in February 1994, who died of an AIDS-related illness at 52. Swinton credits Jarman with introducing her to the cinema she wanted to join after studying as a writer and being drawn into performing by friends. The Eye Filmmuseum exhibition Tilda Swinton - Ongoing in Amsterdam showcases her collaborations with filmmakers and includes previously unseen Jarman Super 8 footage. Swinton called recent HIV prevention advances poignant and framed her exhibition around ghosts, phantoms, and surviving departures.
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