New Year Nuns

Sacred Flesh, Nigel, Wingrove, 2000, 75 mins

Torn between sexual desire, her vows of chastity and her fear of eternal damnation, a medieval nun struggles with her sanity. Bordering on madness, she seeks solace in the savage words of sexual denial that are spoken to her by a disturbing ‘death nun’ vision. Her sanity is further threatened by the imagined figure of Mary Magdalen who challenges her concepts of sex as an evil, malignant force. In between these discussions the nun’s mind is filled with brooding, violent, sexual fantasies that push her into a world of blackness, blood, and orgasmic self destruction.

Visions of Ecstasy, Nigel Wingrove, 1989, 19 mins

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 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 law in 2008, Visions of Ecstasy is finally available for your viewing pleasure.

Confessions of Sinful Nun, Ricky Greenwood, 2018, 106 mins

Confessions of a Sinful Nun centres on the devout Sister Charlotte (Charlotte Stokely) as she lives a peaceful life with her other sisters. Unfortunately, everything will change when Sister Lily (Lily Adams) arrives at the convent. Sister Charlotte is suddenly seduced by the temptation of being with another woman. This attraction and desire will shatter everything she believes in. Meanwhile, Mother Superior (Nina Hartley) will have to deal with other outbreaks of forbidden and salacious behaviour among the other sisters…

Confessions of a Sinful Nun 2: The Rise of Sister Mona, Ricky Greenwood, 2019, 119 mins

Sister Mona is to be transferred to Mother Joan’s abbey. Mother Joan rules her abbey very differently. She’s tough, very strict with her nuns, and she’s determined to put a stop to Sister Mona’s immoral behavior…