Blue Now

Jay Bernard will perform in Perspectives: Blue Now at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on November 23.

“BLUE was Derek Jarman’s final film, completed shortly before his death in 1994. A single unchanging shot of celestial blue is accompanied by a kaleidoscopic soundtrack of voices and music, and we hear Jarman reflecting on his own AIDS-related illnesses, on his mortality, and on loved ones lost to the virus. As AIDS progressively steals his sight, he searches for a vision that ‘transcends the solemn geography of human limits’.

Simon Fisher Turner, who created the original soundtrack of the film in 1994, performs a new live score, created in collaboration with cellist and composer Lucy Railton. Directed by Neil Bartlett, BLUE NOW’s cast features four extraordinary contemporary voices; Travis Alabanza, Russell Tovey, Jay Bernard and Joelle Taylor , who deliver Jarman’s own powerful words (originally voiced by Jarman himself, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry and John Quentin).”

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