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I think we should all toss in a few dollars to fund this Kickstarter campaign. Only in the age of the Internet can we actually turn the tables on the people who censor us!
"Make the Censors Watch 'Paint Drying'" aims to fund a film that will be submitted to the British Board of Film Classification. The more money is raised, the longer the film that some poor censor will have to endure.
As film maker Charlie Lyne describes the project:
The British Board of Film Certification (previously known as the British Board of Film Censors) was established in 1912 to ensure films remained free of 'indecorous dancing', 'references to controversial politics' and 'men and women in bed together', amongst other perceived indiscretions.
Today, it continues to censor and in some cases ban films, while UK law ensures that, in effect, a film cannot be released in British cinemas without a BBFC certificate.
Each certificate costs around £1000 for a feature film of average length. ... Luckily, there's a flipside to all of this: while filmmakers are required to pay the BBFC to certify their work, the BBFC are also required to sit through whatever we pay them to watch.
That's why I'm Kickstarting a BBFC certificate for my new film Paint Drying — a single, unbroken shot of white paint drying on a brick wall.
As of the time of submission [2015-11-19 03:05:43], the total is up to £1,799 ($2747 US). The handy web site here tells us that that will finance 3 hours, 59 minutes and 25 seconds of paint drying action!
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Friday November 20 2015, @07:09PM
Its worse than that.
The people sitting through it are NOT the decision makers responsible.
As always, the heads of bureaucracies make the plebs suffer the sharp end of their dull policies while patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
Utterly pathetic...
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday November 20 2015, @07:56PM
Yes, how those pleb censor viewers must suffer, having to watch all that pron.
Never mind, if they set up say three monitors next to each other perhaps they could watch a nice "The Sound of Music" remake in the centre of the boring "Paint Drying" and "Titania's Titanic Tits 7", and keep an eye on all of them at the same time.