Episode 28: Derek Jarman’s “Blue” - AIDS, Dying and Necropolitics

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This episode discusses Derek Jarman’s "Blue". Swade wants to sexualize armpits and talk about pink washing. (00:07:30) Walter wants the podcast to be more focused on films so he talks a little bit about some of the movies he watched this week. The films are “The Third Man” directed by Carol Reed and “Demons” by Toshio Matsumoto. Swade doesn’t choose to help though.(00:16:32) Instead, Swade wants to share about his broken car. (00:29:55) Swade does some research and shares some facts on what AIDS is. (00:43:09) Then, Swade and Walter dive a bit deeper into quotes from "Blue" and how uses fantasy and metaphors and also strongly confronts normative narratives about AIDS. (01:02:32) Walter thinks "Blue" is a very good film example of necropolitics which leads to a introspective conversation about dying and death. (01:16:49) Walter thinks the way Jarman uses blue and experiments blue shows how limits and agency run parallel to each other. He uses the filmmaking, time and life as examples of this. (01:30:50) Finally, Swade wants to show off his muscles once again unrelated to anything but it does remind Walter about a film called "Muscle" directed by Hisayasu Sato

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