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This week we're marking World AIDS Day and the 40th anniversary of the first report on HIV AIDS in a medical journal.

Today we remember the British experimental filmmaker Derek Jomon.

In 1976 his film Sebastiani shocked audiences with its nudity and overtly gay storyline.

He died 18 years later of AIDS.

Vincent Dowd spoke to two people who knew Derek Jarman well.

In Castrice, and Sebastianos, Ego...

Sebastiani was a remarkable film to emerge from British cinema in the 1970s.

For one thing, the dialogue was in Latin.

And although it wasn't pornography, Derek Jarman had certainly made Britain's first explicitly gay feature film.

Born in 1942, Jarman was from a middle class very English background.

His father had been an R.E.F pilot.

He trained as a painter and later on his critic said he was more interested

in the look of a film that in creating a coherent story.

Carl Johnson became part of his unofficial repertory company of actors.

He would say, I know nothing about acting, I'm not sure what I know about films.

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