Derek Jarman's The Garden. Derek Jarman's Garden, Woodstock, New York, 1996. The film includes a narration by Tilda Swinton and clips of Jarman's films, juxtaposed with news and footage of the current affairs from the times that this life illuminated. Blue is poetic and reminiscent, somewhere between stream of consciousness and fly-on-the-wall documentary of Jarman as a patient. Using emblems and symbols in associative contexts, rather than conventional, cause-and-effect narrative, he created films noteworthy for their lyricism and poetic feeling and for their exploration of the gay experience. Derek Jarman's Blue - 1000 Invisible Things . 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. Derek Jarman | Encyclopedia.com By showing us around 70 minutes of a static blue screen, Jarman makes a bold choice to make the viewer confront an unchanging reality while he talks about various issues that haunted him. Derek Jarman: Gartdener — Plinth et al "O Blue come in" | Sabzian From Amazon: Product Description. Jubilee's final scene aptly takes the narrative full circle with Queen Elizabeth I and her alchemical advisor, John Dee (Richard O'Brien), returning to rural Elizabethan England along the Dorset Coast at Dancing Ledge. Almost Bliss: Notes on Derek Jarman's Blue, curated by Donald Smith 8, 1979. The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Grieve The Capital: Derek Jarman ... It would be amazing to sit in a large room watching this film. interviewee.