GéNIA's Bach Recordings Featured in Francis Bacon Documentary – Premiere This Saturday 28 February 2026 in Soho

This Saturday, 28 February 2926, MPHQ Pictures and The Museum of Soho London present the first cinema screening of BACON’S HISTORIES: Study for a Portrait by filmmaker Martha Parsey at All Is Joy, Soho.

I am deeply honoured that my recordings of Bach are woven into this powerful motion picture artwork.

About the Film

The documentary explores the profound influences that shaped Bacon’s artistic vision — from Greek tragedy and Egyptian antiquity to the poetry of T.S. Eliot and the Shakespearean myth.

Through rare archive footage and unpublished recordings of Bacon in conversation with David Sylvester, the film reveals his reflections on his biography, artistic beginnings, and formative years in Ireland, England, Berlin and Paris — times marked by brutality, uncertainty and cultural upheaval.

Screened in Soho — next to the legendary French House where Bacon drank with Lucian Freud — the film features the only interview with Henrietta Moraes, one of the defining figures of London’s bohemian era.

Showing during London’s LGBTQ+ History Month, it also offers a re-evaluation of Bacon’s standing as a homosexual artist in 1950s Soho, long before homosexuality was decriminalised in England.

Bach Within the Labyrinth

Music forms a subtle but essential thread.

The inclusion of my Bach recordings adds a further dimension — Bach’s architectural clarity placed in dialogue with Bacon’s intensity and existential rawness.

It is a privilege to contribute musically to Francis Bacon documentary of such historical and artistic depth.

Alongside my Bach recordings, the film features a beautiful original score by Hayden Parsey, creating a layered musical landscape that deepens the emotional and intellectual texture of the work.

Directed by Martha Parsey

BACON’S HISTORIES is conceived and directed by Martha Parsey — a filmmaker whose work moves between cinema, theatre and visual art with rare intellectual and emotional depth.

Parsey approaches Francis Bacon not simply as a biographical subject, but as a mythic and cultural force — threading together archive material, theatre, poetry and visual philosophy. Her background in performance and classical text gives the film its distinctive texture: language becomes structure, voice becomes atmosphere, and history becomes lived experience.

This is not a conventional documentary.

It is a motion picture artwork.

To have my Bach recordings included within her carefully constructed cinematic architecture is a true artistic honour.

Limited Tickets Available

The premiere screening takes place this Saturday in Soho.

A limited number of tickets remain available.

If you are in London, I would be delighted to see you there.

Book Your Free Ticket

I look forward to sharing this special evening with you in Soho.

Warm wishes,

GéNIA