In his final — and most daring — cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS, and his encroaching blindness, Blue is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical. Great Britain 1993. 76 mins.

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Deviate

Wrik Mead’s Deviate, by Toronto filmmaker Mead, is a short Super 8 film in which friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, share their memories of him. During this discussion, old footage of Dan expressing himself is projected into still life. Canada 1992. 3 mins