Blue & Ostia

A film at the very limit of what cinema is and can be – and, as a result, a remarkable incarnation of the most essential qualities of the medium – Jarman’s final work is both a startlingly personal summation of the priorities of a life and a universally resonant document of mortality and its meaning. Its unchanging blue screen and collaged soundscape of thoughts, anxieties, meditations, create a space unique in visual culture.

* Screening with OSTIA
Director: Julian Cole. UK 1991. 26 mins.
Julian Cole’s imaginative description of the last night in the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, made whist he was a final year student at the Royal College of Art. Derek Jarman takes the role of his hero.