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Ken Russell’s 1962 film is widely celebrated as one of the most innovative art documentaries of all time. Moving from London bedsits and studios to the cinema and fairground, it profiles the Young British Artists of the day who pioneered Pop Art, including Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty. The screening will take place during our monthly Up Late evening.

As part of Queer Bath, FilmBath and the Holburne Museum present a special screening of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane—a visually arresting and profoundly poetic reimagining of the life of St Sebastian.

Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976) was groundbreaking in its open and unapologetic depiction of homoeroticism, marking one of the first positive cinematic representations of gay sexuality. Told entirely in Latin, the film reinterprets the Christian martyr as a queer icon, exploring themes of desire, devotion, and resistance.

At the Holburne Museum, St Sebastian is already present in the collection, standing as a powerful symbol of suffering, resilience, and queer identity. For centuries, the saint’s pierced and bound form has been reimagined through an LGBTQIA+ lens—his image reclaimed as an emblem of defiance, beauty, and desire.

This screening offers a unique opportunity to experience Sebastiane in dialogue with the museum’s collection, exploring the connections between art, queerness, and historical narratives of martyrdom and desire. The event will include an introdcution from the Holburne Museums curator Hannah Mills.