Film

From Seenoevil

The boundary between Art, Erotica and Pornography is a question of personal taste. The Censors at the British Board of Film Classification are trained in order to make, so far as possible, consistent decisions. Context is all:

"The acceptability of a theme depends significantly on its treatment ie the context and sensitivity of its presentation. However, the most problematic themes (for example drug abuse, sexual violence, paedophilia, incitement to racial hatred or violence) are unlikely to be appropriate at the most junior levels of classification. Correspondingly, there is no reason in principle why most themes, however difficult, could not be satisfactorily handled at ‘18’ or even ‘15’."

The relationship between the British Board of Film Classification guidelines and the proposed law suggests that the new law might result in significant further restrictions on the material that can be classified by the BBFC.

Contemporary film makers who explore these boundaries between art and pornography, for example Larry Clark and Gaspar Noe may be affected by these proposals.

The work of Larry Clark is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [1]

The British Board of Film Classification recently certified “Destricted”, a series of films that explore the boundary between art and pornography, for cinema release [2].

Blog commentary: Art and Porn, who draws the line?