'Blue' is an extremely dynamic film with an extremely static visuality - a single uninterrupted deep blue image for the 76 minutes the film lasts. But in contrast to the film's monochrome minimalism, which appears eternal, calm and grandiose like the sky or the sea, a complex web of music, poetry, and burning diary entries unfolds in the film's soundscape, depicting the English film director's life with the disease that slowly took away his sight and his circle of friends from him: AIDS.
A New York Times reviewer described Blue as both "heartbreaking, infuriating, boring, pretentious, and captivating" upon its release. It is not only Jarman's last but also his most uncompromising film work.
The film is introduced by the renowned American architecture theorist David Gissen; it is the first chapter in the film series 'Disabled Lives, Disabling Forms', which examines the intersection between disability, film and architecture.
Blue / Derek Jarman / 1993 / United Kingdom / English with English subtitles / 75’
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'Disabled Lives, Disabling Forms' Film Program
A two-day program of experimental documentary films – all created by filmmakers, representing their experiences of impairment. In addition to documenting disability at home and within urban spaces, these works also disable the aesthetic character of film by challenging the conventional relationships between imagery, sound, and point of view in an effort to capture the sentiment of impairment.
01.06: 'Blue' with an introductory lecture by David Gissen
19.15-21.15
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr
Blue / Derek Jarman / 1993 / United Kingdom / English with English subtitles / 75’
01.06: 'I Didn't See You There' with an introductory lecture by David Gissen
21.15-22.45
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr
I Didn't See You There / Reid Davenport / 2022 / United States / English with English subtitles / 76’
02.06: 'Behindert', 'Crip Time', and 'Hand Model' with an introductory lecture by David Gissen
16.30-18.30
Cinemateket
100 kr / 70 kr
Behindert / Stephen Dwoskin / 1971 / United States / English with English subtitles / 96'
Crip time / Carolyn Lazard / 2018 / United States / English with English subtitles / 10’
Hand Model / Michelle Miles / 2019 / United States / English with English subtitles / 2’
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