blue at walker

Starting this Thursday, the Walker will be continually screening the piece Blue until mid-June:

Blue is the 12th and final film by British artist Derek Jarman, completed just before his death in 1994 from AIDS-related complications. The film explores the process of dying, and possibly most importantly for a visual artist, the loss of his sight—ultimately seeing only blue. Jarman made the film as a way to explore, as he termed it, “the world of the painter Yves Klein, inventor of the void, International Blue, the symphony monotone.” The single image on screen is a rectangle of light matched to Klein’s blue. Narration by Jarman, Nigel Terry, John Quentin, and Tilda Swinton tells Jarman’s story through poetic references to the way his sight changes as he succumbs to the disease paired with the everyday events going on around him. 1993, 35mm transferred to video, 72 minutes. Presented as part of the exhibition Event Horizon.