SCREENING
Blue + Listen to Britain
Ongoing
Location: Redstone Theater
Blue. Dir. Derek Jarman. 1993, 79 mins. DCP courtesy of James Mackay/Zeitgeist.
Preceded by Listen to Britain. Dir. Humphrey Jennings. 1942, 20 mins. 35mm print source: BFI. Both Jennings and Jarman were dead-set on pushing the envelope of accepted film form, and as it happens their respective magna opera jettison the aural components of cinema to the forefront, with Jarman going as far as to eliminate all but a solid palette of rich blue from the visual realm, and Jennings (along with co-director Stewart McAllister) eschewing the conventional ubiquity of the voiceover in favor of an ethnographic immersion in tableaus of wartime Britain.
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