May - Jun
79min | NC16 (Mature themes)
Showtimes
Sat
10, 17, 31 May - 5pm
24 May - 3pm
7, 14, 21 Jun - 5pm
Visually composed of a pure Yves Klein blue frame, Derek Jarman's final film reflects on his journey with HIV - a disease slowly eroding his sight.
Through narrations from his frequent collaborators Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry and John Quentin, BLUE glides through imagined scenes - some banal, others absurd - but be it getting coffee, reading the news and walking down the street, each lyrical prose transforms into visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow.
A grand meditation on illness, dying and undying love, Jarman considers the transcendental quality of emotion in a film without images, without sight. And perhaps when all's said and done, the only constant is Blue - a colour, a feeling, a funk.
In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings.
Image from the theatre production of Blue. Courtesy of James Mackay.