For this episode along with my guest will be dissecting Derek Jarman’s historical, religious, but ultimately queer debut Sebastiane.
Released in 1976, is set in a sun drenched rocky coast line of the Mediterranean island of Sardinian. With a dialogue entirely in Latin, Sebastiane tells the story of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
The film is not a biopic by any means but more of a queer BDSM interpretation of this biblical story. The film, was seen as one of the first unlicensed ‘underground’ queer films, which was allowed into the public spaces of commercial cinema and television and one that featured positive images of gay sexuality, in comparison to previously released queer films. But also, interestingly it was also the first ever film passed by the British Board of Film Censors that depicted an erect penis.
To talk to me about the film, I invited along film critic and writer Robert Stinner. It’s a conversation I very much enjoyed where we able to discuss in depth the films audacious homoeroticism, its timelessness and its influence on future queer filmmaking.
Thank you for listening!
Music: James Jones @james-jones-music
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For this episode along with my guest will be dissecting Derek Jarman’s historical, religious, but ultimately queer debut Sebastiane.
Released in 1976, is set in a sun drenched rocky coast line of the Mediterranean island of Sardinian. With a dialogue entirely in Latin, Sebastiane tells the story of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
The film is not a biopic by any means but more of a queer BDSM interpretation of this biblical story. The film, was seen as one of the first unlicensed ‘underground’ queer films, which was allowed into the public spaces of commercial cinema and television and one that featured positive images of gay sexuality, in comparison to previously released queer films. But also, interestingly it was also the first ever film passed by the British Board of Film Censors that depicted an erect penis.
To talk to me about the film, I invited along film critic and writer Robert Stinner. It’s a conversation I very much enjoyed where we able to discuss in depth the films audacious homoeroticism, its timelessness and its influence on future queer filmmaking.
Thank you for listening!
Music: James Jones @james-jones-music
Follow us on I: @ltcompanion / F: @LongtimeCompanion
EPISODE 17: Aggelos - Interview with Panos Poimenidis from Studio Prokopiou
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2 years ago
EPISODE 17: Aggelos - Interview with Panos Poimenidis from Studio Prokopiou
For this episode we will be talking about the Greek film Aggelos, a second instalment of what I would loosely call a series focused on films and cinematic themes from Greece and Cyprus. Aggelos is a melodrama released in 1982 by the director Giorgos Katakouzinos who reinterpreted the real-life events of a murder of a young gay man by his partner, a few years before the film.
I invited Panos Poimenidis talk to me about the film. Panos is the one half of Studio Prokopiou, who long with his partner Phillip, they create photography and art inspired by film, theatre, mythology, the club scene and social media.
Panos was a able to give me a very personal take on the film. Even if his own experiences growing up queer in Greece is 20 plus year later, he could still see the remnants of the topics addressed in Aggelos still lingering within Greek society to this day.
Please note there are spoilers in our discussion.
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Music: James Jones @james-jones-music
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For this episode along with my guest will be dissecting Derek Jarman’s historical, religious, but ultimately queer debut Sebastiane.
Released in 1976, is set in a sun drenched rocky coast line of the Mediterranean island of Sardinian. With a dialogue entirely in Latin, Sebastiane tells the story of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
The film is not a biopic by any means but more of a queer BDSM interpretation of this biblical story. The film, was seen as one of the first unlicensed ‘underground’ queer films, which was allowed into the public spaces of commercial cinema and television and one that featured positive images of gay sexuality, in comparison to previously released queer films. But also, interestingly it was also the first ever film passed by the British Board of Film Censors that depicted an erect penis.
To talk to me about the film, I invited along film critic and writer Robert Stinner. It’s a conversation I very much enjoyed where we able to discuss in depth the films audacious homoeroticism, its timelessness and its influence on future queer filmmaking.
Thank you for listening!
Music: James Jones @james-jones-music
Follow us on I: @ltcompanion / F: @LongtimeCompanion
