This event is not included in the HOME Film Pass
“If I lose half my sight, will my vision be halved?”
Blue was Derek Jarman’s final film. Completed in May 1993, just months before his death, it is his testament. For 74 minutes, an unchanging screen of celestial blue is accompanied by voices which deliver a collage of fragments from Jarman’s diary, describing the gradual onset of blindness as he battles with HIV. As his daily life is stripped away, only the essentials remain.
For this very special live screening, a cast of four performers – actor Russell Tovey (Years and Years, American Horror Story); artist Jay Bernard (Surge: Side A); theatre maker Neil Barlett (Orlando) and TS Eliot award-winning poet Joelle Taylor (C+nto and othered poems) will deliver Jarman’s powerful words, directed by Neil Bartlett. The film’s original composer, Simon Fisher Turner, will accompany them with a new live score.
Blue was created during the darkest days of the British AIDS epidemic, and bears witness not just to its creator’s remarkable courage but also to the rage and loss of an entire generation. Thirty years to the month after it was completed, this new live rendition of the film will be a chance to hear afresh its inspiring message of compassion, love and dignity under fire.
Friend and Member tickets are now on sale.
General tickets go on sale Mon 27 March at 12pm.
WeTransfer presents BLUE NOW in association with Fuel and Basilisk Communications.
A film by Derek Jarman, performed live.
Live event commissioned by WePresent by WeTransfer.
Directed by Neil Bartlett.
Performed by Russell Tovey, Jay Bernard, Neil Bartlett and Joelle Taylor.
Soundmusic by Simon Fisher Turner.
Produced by Fuel.