Sebastiane

Jarman cheekily saying “we couldn’t afford costumes” when questioned about the amount of nudity in this, ahh that’s history

Chris Feil

The scene of the gladiators romping in the water is arresting not just for its sensational eroticism - the kind of sensuous luxuriation in male beauty almost non-existent in the entirety of cinema - but for its formal brilliance and simple, painterly evocation of the film's…

Laurence Barber

The best way to describe this is: it's like a Pasolini on acid.

EnteredTheVoid

"He is as beautiful as the sun. This sun which caresses me… is his burning desire. He is Phoebus Apollo. The sun… is his… burning kiss." The personal is always political. When Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress codirected Sebastiane, less than a decade had passed since…

theironcupcake

a world where gay is a norm & straight a minority

faye

SUSAN SONTAG: "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." DEREK JARMAN: "Hold my beer."

Justin Jagoe

most men dont realize how gay they are till they have anothers sweat on their lips as the shadow of a cross lingers on their psyche

Iska H 🪬

What a gay piece of art. This reimagining of Saint Sebastian's life is both risky for its time, and valuable for the queer cinema. Between naked bodies and sizzling desires, Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress created an unforgettable experience that fully represents the bravery…

nick

brian eno's warbling waves of mysterious chimes carry us into a land of contrasts -- paganism and christianity, ocean and desert, flesh and divinity, desire and renunciation, a war waged in the hearts of men which makes the conqueror a victim of his appetites and the…

comrade_yui