From: Todd Eacrett (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2010 - 18:21:10 PDT
Bono (in Virginia) has been discussed on Frameworks in the past as a lab with very conservative content policies... Maybe them?
Todd Eacrett
Victoria, BC, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: bryan mckay <email suppressed>
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:22 am
Subject: Re: student work and lab regs
> If you Google the text from that policy, the only site that comes
> up
> is Yale Film and Video in Burbank, California.
>
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Joan Hawkins wrote:
>
> > HI all, I've run into a problem this term and I guess I'm
> wondering
> > how common it is, and how you handle it.
> >
> > I teach film history and criticism courses, but in my avant-garde
>
> > classes I always allow
> > students to do a film as part of their final project. In the
> past,
> > I've never had any problem, even when
> > content as well as style was provocative and edgy. This semester
> one
> > of my students, who is also enrolled in advanced production, sent
>
> > footage--enough
> > for two class films' worth of shots-- to a lab for processing and
>
> > printing. The lab processed the film but refused to print it
> > because they found the
> > material objectionable.
> >
> > From what I've been able to piece together from the production
> > prof's report and the student's account, there are suggestive scenes
> > but no actual sex, someone in a corset and about 5 secs of full
> > frontal male nudity. We're sending the processed film to a
> different
> > lab in LA or NY for actual printing, the student is calling to
> talk
> > to them first and then the production prof and I will provide
> > documentation, if necessary, that this is for a
> > class project (actually 2 class projects). Ironically, this
> entire
> > brouhaha broke the day I was planning to discuss the NEA Four and
>
> > the culture wars of the 80s/90s in class, so we had quite a
> > "teachable moment," as my husband wryly called it.
> >
> > I haven't been able to persuade the production prof to tell me
> the
> > name of the lab that refused to print the film; she only says the
> lab> is in the South. She did send me their printed disclaimer,
> which
> > I'm pasting in below. What I'm wondering is how common this is
> and
> > how
> > you all handle similar situations. Should I make a practice of
> > warning students that they need to alert the lab first if there's
>
> > suggestive material?
> > And what in the world counts as suggestive material?-- this
> > disclaimer covers much of what goes on in mainstream Hollywood
> > movies and television.
> >
> > As a caveat, I haven't SEEN the film yet, so I don't know what
> the
> > footage actually looks like, but the description I got from both
> > the student and my colleague make it sound like stuff you could
> see
> > any night on cable. Thanks for any suggestions you can send. Joan
> >
> > The published lab caveat is as follows:
> >
> > "SUBJECT MATERIAL POLICY
> > We realize that the artist has full and total choice of
> expression.
> > However, we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. As a
> > policy, we do not and will not process, print, repair, or
> transfer
> > any film containing: nudity, pornography, sexual acts (either
> real
> > or simulated), lewdness, satanic, occultic, religiously
> blasphemous,
> > exploitative of children, debasement of women, containing S & M,
> > anything illegal, or in any way extremely offensive to us. Nor
> will
> > we participate in the desensitization of or the glorification of
> > killing, rape, violence, gore, suicide, torture, profanity, etc.
> > whether in visual or audio form. "
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joan Hawkins
> > Indiana University
> > Dept of Communication and Culture
> > 800 E. Third St
> > Bloomington, IN 47405
> >
> > office phone 812-855-1548
> >
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