BLUE DE DEREK JARMAN: CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA

Blue of the British painter and film-maker Derek Jarman is probably the only case of an abstract and monochrome film, though there are some precedents in video-art and experimental cinema. From an ideological point of view the film is strictly related to art of identity and gay activism from the 80-ies. There’s also an aesthetic similarity to the series of abstract paintings called Queer by Derek Jarman. While in Blue Jarman accepts his own situation and the proximity of death, in his painitngs of the 90-ies he expressed his discrepancy with the politics of Thatcher’s government towards the AIDS victims.