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Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the beats-forrest-gump-at-least dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A British filmmaker has forced the people who decide how to censor films to watch a 10-hour movie of paint drying on a wall following a protest fundraising campaign. Charlie Lyne launched a Kickstarter to help raise the money needed to send his 'documentary' of a single shot of paint drying on a wall for consideration as a protest against the 'stronghold' the organisation has on the British film industry. The BBFC charge an initial fee of $144.88 to view a film and decide what certificate to give it, and then and additional $10.15 for each minute that the film lasts. The idea was the more money Lyne could raise via his fundraiser, the longer his paint-drying film could last. The campaign eventually nearly £8,500, meaning he was able to send in a 607 minute video which the examiners had to watch in its entirety.

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  1. Pounds or dollars by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pick a damn unit of currency and stick to it!

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    1. Re: Pounds or dollars by denzacar · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Put some "obscene" and "violent" elements throughout the movie but keep it just within the allowed parameters.
      For bonus points, put some of them in audio only (a "fuck" every few hours should do), while others are single frame images.

      Then either call them out on not doing their work or have them stare at paint drying for 10 hours.

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    2. Re:Pounds or dollars by wardrich86 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sure thing champ!

      Initial Fee: 3235532.60 Vietnamese Dong
      Fee per minute: 226674.88 Vietnamese Dong
      Campaign raised: 272438646.75 Vietnamese Dong

      All in all, that's a lot of dong!

    3. Re: Pounds or dollars by toonces33 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You would want to have a really dry audio track - perhaps a computer voice reading some long novel - say "Moby Dick". If the computer mispronounces some words, it wouldn't be a big deal. Except that you would slip in some swearing in the middle somewhere - spoken by the same monotone computer voice in the same speaking pattern as the rest of it.

      An alternative would be to have the soundtrack be 10 hours of a crying baby (undoubtedly a much shorter clip in a loop). Which for most people would be torture to listen to. But in the middle of it you could have an adult come in and swear at the baby.

  2. An Oscar in the works? by OakDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will probably sweep the Oscars... as long as it's white or beige paint.

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    1. Re:An Oscar in the works? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Funny

      #Blackpaintsmatter

  3. They never knew by mdsolar · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were watching the inverse Laplace Transform of subliminal porn.

  4. Re:Dying of suspense... by bfpierce · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The BBFC confirmed it had awarded the movie a U certificate along with a note warning that the description of the film "may contain spoilers". It also read: "Paint Drying is a film showing paint drying on a wall. It contains no material likely to offend or harm.""

    From the TFA. I thought the response was pretty good.

  5. Gotta say it by dargndorp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Still a better love story than Twilight.