Derek Jarman’s BLUE – November 30, 2:00PM @ The Wadsworth

Derek Jarman’s BLUE

Screening Sunday, November 30, 2025, 2:00 PM @ Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – FREE ADMISSION to the film (museum admission not included)

Co-Presented by Out Film CT & Real Art Ways with support from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum

In recognition of World AIDS Day, join a community screening of Derek Jarman’s final feature film. A single field of radiant blue fills the screen while Jarman, facing AIDS in the final month of his life, speaks of illness, intimacy, and eternity. With only voice and color, Blue becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on the body in decline, and the spirit in defiant bloom.

This special screening launches Glitter & Ash: A Derek Jarman Retrospective, a season-long tribute to one of queer cinema’s visionary artists. The retrospective unfolds alongside the exhibition Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings.

BLUE Synopsis: In his final-and most daring-cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, BLUE is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical.

Director Derek Jarman | 1993 | UK | 76 minutes | in English | Not rated

“Derek Jarman’s filmic essay on his own blindness and impending death is a monochromatic elegy to a director’s loss of vision.” – Anton Bitel, Film4