BLUE
a film by Derek Jarman
In collaboration with Palazzo Bentivoglio
A single blue frame remains fixed on the screen, immersing the viewer in a soundscape made up of music, stories, poetry, ambient sounds, memories, moments of everyday life, and intimate and visionary reflections.
Blue is Derek Jarman’s last work before his death, a film-testament created when the director, suffering from AIDS and an eye infection, was unable to see anything other than shades of blue. That very blue, International Klein Blue with its dense ultramarine tones, opens up Jarman’s inner world to the viewer, his most intimate and profound experiences, and takes them on a journey with him.
The soundtrack is a mix of narrating voices, sound effects, and music which, together with the single blue frame that remains fixed on the screen for 79 minutes, allows the viewer to immerse themselves in a film that aims to be an intense meditation on mortality, memory, and the AIDS crisis.
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Free admission
until full capacity is reached
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Jarman Derek, English painter, director, and theater and film set designer, born in Northwood (Middlesex) on January 31, 1942, and died in London on February 19, 1994. A key figure in the counterculture of the 1970s and 1980s for his disruptive anti-conformist attitude, he was a point of reference for the queer community.
Close to the underground aesthetic, after shooting only in Super 8 for several years, he moved on to feature films (generally shot in 16 mm and then transferred to 35 mm), without ever compromising with the industry, but preserving his original experimental style intact.
His cinema, dreamlike and subversive, full of references (structural, iconographic, and biographical) to various artistic disciplines, is stylistically composite: focused on the contamination between past and present, history and nature, collage and narration, it oscillates between maximum improvisation and control of the mise-en-scène. He was also the scriptwriter and screenwriter of his films, sometimes in collaboration with others.
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