Blue (1993 film)

This article is about the experimental film by Derek Jarman. For the entry in Krzysztof Kieślowski's colours trilogy, see Three Colours: Blue. For other uses, see Blue movie.

Blue
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDerek Jarman
Written byDerek Jarman
Produced byJames Mackay
Takashi Asai
Narrated by
Music bySimon Fisher Turner
John Balance
Momus
Peter Christopherson
Danny Hyde
Karol Szymanowski
Erik Satie
Brian Eno
Production
companies
Basilisk Communications
Uplink
Arts Council of Great Britain
Opal
BBC Radio 3
Distributed byChannel 4 (United Kingdom)
Zeitgeist Films (United States and Canada)
Release dates
  • June 1993 (1993-06) (Venice Biennale)
  • 19 September 1993 (1993-09-19) (UK)
Running time
79 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom, Japan
LanguageEnglish

Blue is a 1993 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman. It is his final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release and was only able to see in shades of blue.

The film was his last testament as a film-maker and consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour - specifically International Klein Blue[1] (RGB 0, 47, 167, CMYK 100, 72, 0, 35).[2] This fills the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman's and some of his long-time collaborators' narration describes his life and vision.

  1. ^ "'Blue', Derek Jarman, 1993".
  2. ^ "RGB #002FA7 | International Klein Blue | RGB Chart & Multi Tool".