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In celebration of a 5th or 6th century Christian saint who didn't actually exist, and who has been adopted by both the Uranian Love Movement of the 19th century (gay rights) and the BDSM community as their unofficial patron saint.
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"Jarman’s Romans bark vulgar Latin and are often nude, but the results are far from the standard sword-and-sandal camp. Sebastiane is really a Yeatsian essay on beauty."
March 26, 2012
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Still from the film Sebastiane (1976) by Derek Jarman.
December 31, 2011
Hail god of the golden sun
The heavens and Earth are united in gold
Comb your hair in the golden rays of light
In your hands the roses of ecstasy burn
The wheel turns full circle [5]
Cooled by breezes from the four quarters
The swallow has risen in the East
The doors are open
Your body, your naked body
Initiated into the mysteries, step forth [10]
That beauty that made all colours different
Comes forth into the world
Hail god of the golden fire
Your beauty holds my heart captive(this is read at time 14:40 in the film Sebastiane that I posted earlier today)
December 22, 2011
December 4, 2011
Derek Jarman’s 1976 Sebastiane
Sebastiane portrays the events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows. Most of the controversy surrounding the film derives from the homoeroticism portrayed between the soldiers. It is significant for being the first film to be entirely recorded accurately in Latin, which went as far as the translation of some dialogue into vulgar Latin.
