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====Date: [[:Category:1976|1976]]==== | ====Date: [[:Category:1976|1976]]==== | ||
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====Date: [[:Category:1994|1994]]==== | ====Date: [[:Category:1994|1994]]==== | ||
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== Australia == | |||
====Date: [[:Category:1975-present|1975-present]]==== | |||
====Region: [[:Category:Australia|Australia]]==== | |||
====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]==== | |||
====Medium: [[:Category:Film Video|Film Video]]==== | |||
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[[File:Pasolini3.jpg|left]] | |||
'''Artist:''' Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975); Shock Entertainment | |||
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification | |||
'''Dates of Action:''' 1975 - 1993, 1997 through the present | |||
'''Location:''' Australia | |||
'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Salo (or 120 Days in Sodom)'' is set in Italy during World War II and is about four men who kidnap 16 adolescents and subject them to torture and humiliation. It features scenes depicting explicit sadistic sexual violence, pedophilia and feces-eating. The film has been described as a metaphor for fascism. <P> | |||
'''The Incident:''' After its release in 1975, the film was banned in Australia until 1993, when it was released in a limited fashion. The ban was reinstated in 1997. In 2003, Shock Entertainment obtained the rights and applied to the Office of Film and Literature Classifaction (OFLC) for a rating, so that the company could distribute the film on DVD. The board of 13 voted against the application, 7-6. <P> | |||
[[File:Pasolini2.jpg|right]] | |||
'''Results of Incident:''' Many in the Australian arts and film community have voiced outrage that the OFLC would deny Australians the right to make the choice to view Salo in the privacy of their own homes. Freedom of speech group "Watch on Censorship" has publicly stated that they are unhappy with the decision and that the film is a tightly constructed, narrative piece with high artistic value. The OFLC's decision was upheld in 2008 and still stands. <P> | |||
'''Source:''' The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.refused-classification.com/censorship/films/salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom-1975-1.html | |||
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== New Zealand == | |||
====Date: [[:Category:1975|1975]]==== | |||
====Region: [[:Category:Australia|Australia]]==== | |||
====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] ==== | |||
====Medium: [[:Category:Film Video|Film Video]]==== | |||
[[File:salo.jpeg|right|200px]] | |||
'''Artist:''' Pier Paolo Pasolini | |||
'''Confronting Bodies:''' New Zealand's Office of Film and Literature Classification | |||
'''Dates of Action:''' March 1997 | |||
'''Location:''' Wellington, New Zealand | |||
'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Salo,'' also known as ''120 Days of Sodom,'' is a film about religious and government officials who indulge in vivid baccanalian rituals, such as sundry sexual fetishes and genital mutilation, with their constituencies following the allied invasion of fascist Italy during World War II. <P> | |||
'''The Incident:''' The film has been banned in New Zealand since its release in 1975. Their have been attempts to show the film in 1976 and 1993, but they have been denied by the Office of Film and Literature Classification. <P> | |||
'''Results of Incident:''' New Zealand customs officers siezed the film while it was destined to show at the International Film Festival at the Paramount Theater in Wellington. <P> | |||
'''Source:''' Index on Censorship, 3/97 | |||
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[[Category:Pier Paolo Pasolini]] | |||
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