At a dinner in the company of international critical expertise and many lenders who’ve added immeasurably to the scope and authority of the retrospective, IMMA’s director, Annie Fletcher, toasted - with great poignancy - the genius and humanity of Jarman, who died of AIDS-complications in February 1994. He would be 77, if still alive today, undoubtedly getting under the skin of polite English society while extemporising on the state of the queer nation.