Blue + introduction
Introduced by Neil Bartlett (writer, playwright and director of Blue Now). Blue is rightly recognised as Jarman’s most daring film, and as one of the most significant artistic statements made about AIDS. Inspired in part by Jarman’s desire to pay tribute to Yves Klein with a film consisting simply of an unbroken blue field, and partly by his own experience of gradually losing his sight due to an AIDS-related infection, Blue immerses viewers within a deeply personal and political space. The evocative, poetic script is read by John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and Jarman himself, and supported with incredible sensitivity by Simon Fisher Turner’s soundtrack. Although the film was made by a man who knew he was dying, and although it takes the measure of the losses he has endured, Blue is also defiant and uplifting. As Michael Charlesworth has written, ‘To make Blue, to talk straightforwardly and unflinchingly about his illness and its effects … to make a poet and filmmaker’s beautiful work of art out of the extremity of his predicament, was Jarman’s affirmation’. Screening as part of the Derek Jarman: Modern Nature on Film season, programmed in collaboration with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, which is currently presenting an exhibition focused on Jarman’s work in painting, film, queer activism and writing. Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature is at Hunterian Art Gallery until 4 May 2025.DramaPT1H19M152025-04-13Derek Jarman
Nigel Terry
Tilda Swinton
Derek Jarman
James Mackay
Takashi Asai
Blue + introduction"Blue + introduction"Showtimes
April 13, 7:30 pm
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