Event
World AIDS Day Film Screening: Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)
In recognition of World AIDS Day, you’re invited to a community screening of Derek Jarman’s final feature film, BLUE.
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 screening will take place at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103.
Admission is free, although advance registration is encouraged. (Please note, admission to the film screening does not include museum admission.)
Learn more by visiting the event page here. To register, click here.
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Presented in partnership with Real Art Ways and Out Film CT with support from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
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.
Also in the Wadsworth theater lobby, learn about HIV/AIDS-related resources in Connecticut and see exhibiting artist Gerald Incandela’s on-set photographs from Jarman’s Caravaggio, accompanied by a continuous screening of the 1986 film.
