Authors and Affiliations . Blue - Rotten Tomatoes by Thom Jurek [+] Derek Jarman 's final film was consisted entirely of a blue screen with the flickering shadow of his person appearing and disappearing on its surface. Released in Elizabeth II's silver jubilee year of 1978 as a provocation seemingly towards just about everyone, it's little wonder Derek Jarman's second feature film, Jubilee, caused such an uproar.The Queen herself is mugged and killed for her crown early on in a Deptford edgeland, the punk movement still then raging over London is unconsciously sent up by some of the very people who were part . Derek Jarman Day - DC's It's a passage that encapsulates many of Jarman's most persistent concerns: national identity, reactionary politics, the representation of the past, architecture, landscape and ecology. There is copious nudity (mostly male, but also the . . Derek Jarman's Garden, Woodstock, New York, 1996. Filmmaker Derek Jarman ponders his deteriorating condition from AIDS, set against a plain blue screen. . Blue, 1993 (detail) 35mm film, 75 min, color. Almost Bliss: Notes on Derek Jarman's Blue, curated by Donald Smith He explains the choice in the film itself, claiming that "blue transcends the solemn geography of human limits". Derek Jarman masterpiece 'Blue' and the HIV experience Donna McKevitt Jubilee by Derek Jarman reduced to 1 minute _____ The Tempest (1979) 'Shot on 16mm on a characteristically tiny budget, Derek Jarman's third feature was just as playfully wayward as Sebastiane (co-d. Paul Humfress, 1976) and Jubilee (1978), with which it has rather more in common than any conventional adaptation of a Shakespeare play. This installation centres on a set of Jarman's hand painted and carefully written notebooks, giving insight into the artist's creative thinking towards his seminal late film work, Blue. But the great works in Brutal Beauty are both entirely biographical. That's - eventually - what you did, Derek, and measures your highest contribution as an artist, in my opinion: that you made your work out of the soup kitchen that was your life. Against the tide | Film | The Guardian This paper analyses Derek Jarman's Blue in the context of the politics of AIDS and representation. Blue | Derek Jarman - In Review Online