In December, 1993, 4 months before his death from AIDS-related complications, the author and director Derek Jarman released his final feature film, Blue. At the time, Jarman had been rendered partially blind by cytomegalovirus retinitis and was able to see only in shades of blue. For the film's entire 79 min, he projects nothing but the colour itself upon the screen. Against an uninterrupted wash of blue—the shade so evocative of sea, sky, melancholy, and loss—a soundtrack of music, poetry, and prose unfolds, exploring life and death in a time of AIDS.

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