How Obscene Is This!: The Decency Clause Turns 20 [Films - 9/27]

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider "general standards of decency and respect" in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and the BFA Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts, presents How Obscene is This?, a series of programs about censorship and arts funding evaluating the stifling legacy of the Decency Clause and its impact on our culture.

The programs include panel discussions, film screenings and event-specific videos. For more information, visit: http://ncac.org/How-Obscene-is-This

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!  Seating is limited, general admission.

Film Screening

Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You Are Unlikely to See Elsewhere
Monday, September 27, 2010 – 6:30 p.m.
School of Visual Arts, SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York, 10011

6:30 Destricted (2006), a collection of short films by visual artists, all exploring the boundaries between pornography and art. This will be the exclusive national pre-release screening of the film. Destricted has screened at the Tate Modern in London in 2006, Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals. It includes films by Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Cecily Brown, Marylin Minter, Richard Prince, and Sam Taylor-Wood, and others.

Watch the trailer for DESTRICTED.

7:30 Discussion with Amy Adler, the Emily Kempin Professor of Law at NYU, documentary film director Tony Comstock,  Andrew Hale, Destricted's Founder, filmmaker Marilyn Minter, and Neville Wakefield, one of Destricted's Producers.

8:30 Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002), a film about the abusive home life of several skateboarders in California. Ken Park's controversial sexual content has led to the film being banned in Australia and to its very limited distribution in other countries.

Watch the trailer for KEN PARK.