Additional Work:day 1 reading

Jarman’s film “Blue” reveals the limits of language, expressing suffering and pain through a single blue image. Jarman turns to the complexity of color to convey the incoherent emotion of loss.
The experimental film “BLUE” was created a year before the artist died of AIDS and expresses the expectation of vision and the revelations and “truths” he set out to make.
Color is a metaphorical device through which Jarman guides the viewer through visual, non-visual, and sensitive areas surrounding the topics of AIDS and death. He starts from the position of a sick, dying man struggling with his blindness. For an artist engaged in performative visualization through film and painting, “Blue” is his final cinematic tribute to so many previous senses. It shows his desire to see and his love for life.
In “Blue”, Jarman uncharacteristically uses a single blue image, unlike previous styles of visual production in film. And the work “Garden” is almost devoid of any aural information, relying entirely on visual narrative. Standing on the verge of his death, he struggles with the growing blindness. The language of his camera undergoes a great transformation.
The bells ring and the visual changes turn into sound changes.
There is a collage of many sounds entering, multiple rich sounds. The image stays the same but the visual excitement never goes away. And his signature film collage shifts from visual to sound at this point! In fact it is also a shift in his visually guided cultural language.
The visual then takes on a great deal of the meaning behind the language of the camera. One might draw inspiration and ideas from the loss of the ability to see, expressing the emotional and physical uncertainty of blindness on the impact of life on humanity.
If visual images can give us a great sense of impact, the lack of vision in “Blue” has an equally great impact on us will provoke thoughts on other levels. Blue” not only shows us the suffering of blind AIDS patients, but also gives us a shocking auditory pleasure, a rich diversity of senses.
His films no longer have rich visuals, but convey the meaning behind them with the unchanging blue.
The simple blue images are reminiscent of Yves Klein. Klein Blue has the same melancholic depth.
As the eye is replaced by increasingly sophisticated perceptual technology, the human senses have become untrustworthy. Technology has access to events, forces and wavelengths far beyond the limits of our sensory abilities. It is this “unpredictability” that allows the color, blue, to carry more weight