The Blue Description Project
Audio described, BSL, Descriptive SubtitlesAbout The Blue Description Project
On 19th September 1993, Derek Jarman screened Blue on Channel 4, an epoch-defining account of AIDS, illness and the experience of disability in a culture of repressive heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. Blue was screened in cinemas, simulcast on television and radio, released as a CD and published as a book, creating opportunities for many different kinds of sensory abilities - visual, aural and textual - to experience the work.
Conceived by artists and writers Christopher Jones, Liza Sylvestre and Sarah Hayden, the Blue Description Project creates a new, experimental iteration of Blue on the 30th anniversary of its release and Jarman’s death.
The screening will include descriptive subtitles, audio description and BSL interpretation.
The discussion after the screening between Sarah Hayden, Liza Sylvestre and others TBC will be live-captioned and BSL-interpreted.
BSL provided by Michelle Wood and Peter Abraham.
Booking info
To book Accessible tickets and free Companion tickets, please visit our Accessible Bookings page. Companion tickets will initially show a standard ticket price, but once your account is set-up and you are logged in, this will be reduced to £0 at checkout.
Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
