Sebastiane
Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman
Paul Humfress
Paul Humfress
James Whaley
Casts & Crew
Leonardo Treviglio
Barney James
Neil Kennedy
Richard Warwick
Donald Dunham
Ken Hicks
Janusz Romanov
Steffano Massari
Daevid Finbar
Gerald Incandela
Robert Medley
Lindsay Kemp
Jordan
Nell Campbell
Patricia Quinn
Peter Hinwood
Philip Sayer
Charlotte Barnes
Nicholas de Jongh
Duggie Fields
Christopher Hobbs
Andrew Logan
Johnny Rosza
Rufus Barnes
Sally Campbell
Graham Cracker
Michael Davis
Joan de Vere Hunt
Guy Ford
Gerlinde Kostiff
Michael Kostiff
Ulla Larson-Styles
Alasdair McGaw
Luciana Martínez
Eric Roberts
Norman Rosenthal
Johnny Rozsa
John Scarlett-Davies
Rae Spencer-Cullen
Volker Stokes
Thilo von Watzdorf
Harald Waistnage
Kevin Whitney
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A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? is an essential document of LGBTQ London that was unseen until 2014, 30 years after it was originally shot. In September 1984, Jarman was invited by director Ron Peck and writer Mark Ayres to record improvisations at Benjy’s, a gay club in East London’s Mile End district, as part of the early experimental work for their feature film Empire State, a neo-noir that would be released in 1987. The coed, racially diverse crowd of roughly 100 people at Benjiy’s that night included club regulars, bar staff, and potential players in Empire State. Every single detail captured in Jarman’s on-location assignment abounds with era-specific riches: from the New Romantic cutie journaling while nestled in a corner booth to the DJ’s cheerful exhortations and the songs he spins (“Let the Music Play,” “Planet Rock,” “Relax").
Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema. These were Burroughs-themed art and performance nights curated by Psychic TV. Jarman’s film shows Burroughs on Tottenham Court Road signing autographs with fans and inside a shop buying alcohol. The industrial soundtrack by Psychic TV features a sample of Burroughs repeating "boys, school showers and swimming pools full of 'em'". Additional footage shot by Jarman during Burroughs' visit is reported to have been confiscated by Scotland Yard in 1991 and remains lost. Jarman and Psychic TV would continue to collaborate (“magic bound us together” Jarman wrote), with Jarman directing the music video for Catalan 1984 and staring as the spokesperson for the Psychic TV film Force the Hand of Chance - Message 1982.
A silent short movie, is a literal journey that we can experience. We are being taken to Avebury and given the chance to admire it for 10 minutes. The shots are incredibly beautiful, as we see a huge stone or trees bathed in orange light of sunset.
A short non-narrative film made to commemorate the visit of Burroughs and Gysin to the UK. The film consists of multiple short vignettes: Witches Song (1979), Broken English (1979), Ballad Of Lucy Jordan (1979), Pirate Tape (Derek Jarman, 1983) and T.G.: Psychic Rally In Heaven (Derek Jarman, 1981).
An experimental short film by Derek Jarman includes images of a man combing his hair, death reflected in the mirror and various burning objects.
An experimental film by Derek Jarman that captures the decay of an urban environment.
In this experimental short, four naked men are touched by death.