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Blue

Derek Jarman
Experimental : 79' / HIV-AIDS, Activism, Art & Artists

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Derek 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.

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

November 05 | 19h15 | Batalha - Sala 1

Sections: QP - Carte Blanche

/ Details

Year: 1993

Country: UK, Japan

Language: english

Subtitles: no subtitles

With: John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton (voice overs)

/ Direction

Derek Jarman

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was born in Northwood, Middlesex, on 31 January 1942; he died in London on 19 February 1994. He was educated at the University of London and at the Slade School of Art. His first work in the cinema was as a set designer on Ken Russell’s “The Devils” (1971) and “Savage Messiah” (1972). Derek Jarman was the maverick radical of British cinema during the late 1970s, ‘80s, and early ‘90s. His highly idiosyncratic form of avant-garde art cinema managed to sustain itself due to his personal reputation as an auteur, as an enfant terrible, and to his more or less public private life.

Photo: Basilisk Communications