meeting in the blue fold exists as a space of resonance and continuation — a shared duration where gestures of care interweave across multiple practices and timelines. It is a horizon where tenderness and persistence coexist; where care becomes a form of futurity, and queerness, not as identity but as potential, gestures toward what is not yet here.*

The program extends into this online space, carrying the gestures of the cinema into new registers of attention, while also taking place at Filmhuis Cavia (28–30 November 2025, Amsterdam), where Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) and new commissions by Baha Görkem Yalım (Caravaggio, 2025) and Leon Filter (Root Time, 2025) are presented. On this page, a conversation with James Mackay, alongside the online version of Root Time and Anastasija Pandilovska’s sonic correspondence, continues these gestures of care, listening, and relational attention beyond the frame.

*This conceptual framing is indebted to José Esteban Muñoz and his Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU Press, 2009), which understands queerness as a horizon of potentiality — a gesture toward what is not yet fully visible.

meeting in the blue fold is a hybrid program developed by Suns and Stars, made possible with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, het Cultuurfonds, and the Mondriaan Fonds. Many thanks to our venue partner Filmhuis Cavia and to Basilisks Communications for kindly allowing the screening of Blue.