Visions of ecstasy.
An 18-minute experimental film, Nigel Wingrove's Visions of ecstasy (1989) is the only motion picture ever banned outright in the UK solely on the grounds of blasphemy. Its depiction and interpretation of the erotic imaginings of the 16th-century Carmelite nun, St. Teresa, were such that the fi...
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| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2014.
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| Summary: | An 18-minute experimental film, Nigel Wingrove's Visions of ecstasy (1989) is the only motion picture ever banned outright in the UK solely on the grounds of blasphemy. Its depiction and interpretation of the erotic imaginings of the 16th-century Carmelite nun, St. Teresa, were such that the film's banning was upheld in an historic judgement at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in a case that took seven years to reach its conclusion. Now, due to the abolition of the UK's blasphemy laws in 2008, Visions of ecstasy, previously unseen in the US, is finally being released. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 18 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |