World AIDS Day Film Screening: Blue

In recognition of World AIDS Day, join a 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.

1993. UK (English). 1 hour, 16 minutes. Not rated.

Free. Registration encouraged. Does not include museum admission.

Presented in partnership with Real Art Ways and Out Film CT with support from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

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.

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