Blue

Perhaps not since Andy Warhol's Sleep and Empire State has there been a film quite like Derek Jarman's Blue. This conceptual essay/meditation/memoir on the director's deteriorating condition with aids consists of a dense soundtrack by Simon Fisher-Turner accompanied visually by 76 minutes of blue screen. Jarman ponders numerous subjects and aspects of his disease. Most affectingly, and at greatest length, he speaks of going blind because his retina is being destroyed. "If I lose half of my sight, will my vision be halved?" he asks.