“For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek
Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year
before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s death
due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work
of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book’s text -
serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement
with the AIDS crisis. Written poetically and surrealistically,
Jarman’s text moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others
fantastical. Stories of quotidian life––getting coffee, reading
the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk––escalate to
visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow.
Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in
delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions
in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to
Blue - a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth’s
compelling introduction brings Blue into conversation with
Jarman’s visual paintings as never before.
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