To commemorate World AIDS Day 2016 Eyes Wide Open Cinema is hosting a screening of two films at Duke’s at Komedia.
Proceeds from the screening will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) a charity working to create a world where people with HIV live healthy lives, free from prejudice and discrimination, and good sexual health is a right and reality for everyone.
BLUE
Director Derek Jarman. UK and Japan 1993. 89 minutes
The final film from legendary British director Derek Jarman is a profoundly moving reflection on the mental and physical and emotional strain caused by Jarman’s terminal illness. Completed just a year before his death from AIDS-related illness, the film takes the monochrome glow of a blue-filled frame to represent Jarman’s fading eyesight.
The script, recited by actors and by Jarman himself, alternates poetry and narrative prose around different meanings and interpretations of the colour blue, autobiographical episodes and invocations to a character called Blue. An intimate and intensely affecting piece of cinematic experimentation with spellbinding consequences.
THIS IS NOT AN AIDS ADVERTISEMENT
Director Isaac Julien. UK 1988. 14 mins
An unashamedly erotic and stylish video which reclaims some of the territory seized by the new puritans of the 1980s. The first part contains lyrical images of death and loss, while the second half is assertive and celebratory, accompanied by a funk-heavy soundtrack.
Event: Screening of Blue + This is Not An AIDS Advertisement
Where: Duke’s at Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton BN1 1UN
When: Thursday, December 1
Time: 9pm
Cost: Tickets £8-£11
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