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 slowed-down loops of a number of iconic world leaders and celebrities blinking to specially composed music, serving as large-scale 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 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.
