Artist left baffled by festival film edit.A ROW about "censorship" of a film shown as part of the On the Waterfront weekend has left its creator questioning why segments of his work were taken out. Simon Boswell's film, The Blink Project, was played on Saturday night ahead of the screening of classic movie On the Waterfront. It was commissioned as part of the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) digital film festival, and showed sloweddown loops of a number of iconic world leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. and celebrities blinking to specially composed music, serving as largescale portraits. But the artist is still confused as to why - he claims - he was told to take out political figures such as Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. just days before the screening. "There has seemed to me to be no dialogue, but I have been led to believe through emails that the council found it too political," he said. Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards. refused to comment. |
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