Blue

Directed by Derek Jarman

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman’s experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
Blue is one of Derek Jarman’s most extraordinary films, consisting entirely of a blue screen while voices, music and sound evoke the filmmaker’s life, illness and approaching death. What sounds austere becomes deeply intimate, transforming absence of image into a profound meditation on AIDS, memory and mortality.

Blue

Directed by Derek Jarman

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman’s experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

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Blue is one of Derek Jarman’s most extraordinary films, consisting entirely of a blue screen while voices, music and sound evoke the filmmaker’s life, illness and approaching death. What sounds austere becomes deeply intimate, transforming absence of image into a profound meditation on AIDS, memory and mortality.

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