PLEASE NOTE: This is an PAL (UK/EUROPE format) Region 2 DVD
Director: Nigel Wingrove
Description:
Visions of Ecstasy, a short, 19 minute, experimental art film made in 1989, is the
only film ever to have been banned outright in the UK solely on the grounds of
blasphemy. Further its depiction and interpretations of the erotic imaginings of the
16th Century Carmelite nun, St. Teresa, were such that the films 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 law in 2008, Visions of Ecstasy is finally being released.
Included with this historic film is also a 36 page, booklet written by the films director,
Nigel Wingrove, in which he explains how the film came to be made, the effect of its
banning had on his life and future work, and how his continuing battles against film
censorship led eventually to the resignation of the BBFC's then director, James Ferman,
the legalisation of pornography and a general relaxation of film classification overall.
Special features:
• Extensive Stills and Press Gallery
• Interviews
• 36 Page booklet
• Erotic short film, AXEL, by Nigel Wingrove and with an original soundtrack by Danielle Dax
• Nunsploitation feature film by Nigel Wingrove
• Visions of Ecstasy has an original soundtrack by STEVEN SEVERIN
Film details:
UK 1989 Colour 19 min
Directed by Nigel Wingrove
Produced by John Stephenson
Music by Steven Severin
With Louise Downie, Elisha Scott, Dan Fox.
Product Code: R1010
