Free screening – no ticket necessary!
Free screening – no ticket necessary! All free La CinOMAthéque screenings will take place in the Truist Auditorium at the Orlando Museum of Art.
ACCESS FOR ALL AT OMA presents:
La CinOMAthéque: A collaboration between OMA and Enzian, with generous support provided by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. Access for All at OMA is a monthly free day dedicated to the community. La CinOMAthéque will be a series of 6 bimonthly free screenings of experimental, avant-garde, art films in the Truist auditorium at OMA on Access for All day.
Each screening will be introduced and include a talkback with OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.
Derek Jarman's Blue:
Screening as part of the Enzian's 2026 Reel Pride series!
Completed just four months before his death, in his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Derek Jarman (Caravaggio, Edward III, Jubilee) the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen.
A film unlike any other. Presented as a single, unchanging field of luminous blue, Jarman’s swan song unfolds through a rich tapestry of voices, music, and memory. As his eyesight faded due to AIDS-related illness, Jarman crafted this deeply personal meditation on mortality, love, and the fragility of the body. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life and his struggle with AIDS, Blue is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosophical.
By stripping cinema down to image and sound at their most elemental, the film becomes both a stream-of-conscience diary entry and a powerful artistic statement on a lifetime of breaking the rules. Haunting, hypnotic, and profoundly moving, it remains one of the most daring and unforgettable farewells ever committed to film.
Featuring the voices of frequent Jarman collaborators John Quentin (Gandhi), Nigel Terry (Excalibur) and Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), experience the transcendent final work of Derek Jarman with an immersive “gallery” presentation of this revolutionary work of artistic and personal defiance.
1993, 76 minutes, USA, Directed by Derek Jarman, Unrated
“Perhaps by eliminating straightforward representation, one can focus on the soul rather than its vessel. In this regard, it's unique in how it merges experimental and narrative qualities. What may at first seem alienating for viewers unfamiliar with Jarman soon becomes inviting in its courageous closeness.”
– Kathleen Sachs, CINE-FILE
“A rich memoir of Jarman's formative experiences as a gay man, and of his confrontation with sickness and mortality in the context of the AIDS crisis, an epidemic that disproportionately affected a whole generation of queer people.”
– LJ Freeza, DANDOR
“Blue is many things — sober and puckish, elegiac yet intensely alive — but never maudlin. Above all, it is the work of an artist who, even in the last year of his life, was still incandescent.”
– Melissa Anderson, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“The sweeping, subliminal power of color field paintings, like those of Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko, had seldom been captured onscreen until Jarman's film, which successfully translates the paintings' overwhelming experience of captive viewership.”
– Shana Beth Mason, THE BROOKLYN RAIL
