The Museum of Modern Art

November 1, 2014, 4:45 p.m. — Sebastiane (1976)

Written and directed by Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman.. Set in the golden-hued wilds of Sardinia and performed entirely in vulgar Latin by a sun-kissed, all-male cast, the film heralded newcomer Derek Jarman as a savior of British independent cinema. With Leonardo Treveliglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy. Great Britain. Sebastiane

1976. Humfress and Jarman’s sado-erotic retelling of the agonies and martyrdom of Sebastian, a fourth-century Praetorian Guard, is Queer Cinema at its most poetic and ravishing.