Tilda Moments
In the eighties, Swinton became the avant-garde’s Garbo, a manifestation of ideas in the flesh. Hilton Als spoke to the elusive anti-star, in 2002.
"In the eighties and early nineties, in film after film by the late, pioneering English director Derek Jarman, Swinton became the avant-garde's Garbo, a manifestation of ideas in the flesh. 'But that kind of art is dead,' she said not long ago." — Swinton on art cinema