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Blue is a 1993 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman. It is his final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release, only being able to see in shades of blue.
Dec 3, 1993 · Blue: Directed by Derek Jarman. With John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton. 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.
Sep 14, 2023 · Thirty years on from the landmark broadcast of Derek Jarman’s Blue, BFI curator Simon McCallum retraces the extraordinary creative journey behind the queer artist’s testament to life and love in the time of AIDS.
Dec 25, 2022 · Derek Jarman relates and explores his experience of the tragic irony of a visual artist gradually losing his sight to the color blue and his lovers and friends as his sickness from aids advances. Personal but also transcending.
Aug 18, 2022 · 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 philosphical. # ...
May 11, 2023 · Featuring two men sleeping on a bed surrounded by homophobic newspaper cuttings and encircled by barbed wire, the artwork Jarman created evoked the decade’s backdrop of death and loss with a forthright anger and urgency. Bartlett was surprised, even unsettled, by the contemplative tone of Blue.
Filmmaker Derek Jarman ponders his deteriorating condition from AIDS, set against a plain blue screen.
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Originally trained as a painter, Derek Jarman eventually took on film as his primary medium, producing a number of influential experimental works. His final feature film, Blue, was originally inspired by French conceptual artist Yves Klein’s signature monochrome blue canvases, but the project took on a more perusal tone after Jarman was ...
Blue (1993) Derek Jarman’s last miracle – an extraordinary reflection on his own imminent death from an AIDS-related illness. Watch and discover.
The final film by Derek Jarman, who died 20 years ago, comprises just one shot: a single frame of blue, close in pigment to Yves Klein’s patented International Klein Blue. The static image mirrors the deterioration of Jarman’s sight as a side effect of his HIV medication.
