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Sebastiane: A Work in Progress (c.1975): newly remastered from 16mm film elements held by the BFI National Archive, this sadly incomplete early black and white work-print of Sebastiane differs significantly from the finished film. This previously unseen alternate edit – assembled in a different order, featuring a different soundtrack – was never subtitled or released.Read More »
Neil Kennedy
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Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman – Sebastiane: A Work in Progress (1976)
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Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman – Sebastiane (1976)
1971-1980ArthouseCultDerek JarmanPaul Humfress and Derek JarmanQueer Cinema(s)United KingdomQuote:
Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only English-made film to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994.Read More »