Blue
As a tribute to one of our favorite filmmakers Cinema Queer ambraces the color blue and screens Derek Jarman’s last masterpiece. Blue was first released in 1993, four months before Jarman’s death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind, making him only able to see in shades of blue.
The film was his last testament as a film-maker, and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour (RGB 0, 47, 167, CMYK 100, 72, 0, 35). This fills the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman’s and some of his long-time collaborators’ narration describes his life and vision.
