Visions of Ecstasy

A short, 19 minute, experimental art film made in 1989, Visions of Ecstasy 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 film’s banning was upheld in an historic judgement at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg; 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 released.