In recognition of World AIDS Day, join a FREE community screening of Derek Jarman’s final feature film. A single field of radiant blue fills the screen while Jarman, facing AIDS in the final month of his life, speaks of illness, intimacy, and eternity. With only voice and color, Blue becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on the body in decline, and the spirit in defiant bloom.
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This special screening launches Glitter & Ash: A Derek Jarman Retrospective, a season-long tribute to one of queer cinema’s visionary artists. The retrospective unfolds alongside the exhibition Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings.
BLUE Synopsis: In his final--and most daring--cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic, and philosophical.
Director Derek Jarman | 1993 | UK | 76 minutes | in English | Not rated
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