I feel the nihilism is over done because the chances of these stories all taking place in the same community is minute. Screening of the film American Splendor instead.When I say the film is overly nihilistic I speak to the scenarios all taking place in the same community each one being more godless and disgusting then the next.
Results of Incident: Screening of Ken Park at the Sydney Film Festival canceled.
Under current law, the state attorney general can give “Special Exemption” to allow a festival screening, but so far the NSW government has made no response or comment on the ban. Appeals have also been made to the state Labor government in New South Wales to bypass the decision. Past and present festival organisers have denounced the decision and called on film patrons to lobby federal parliamentarians. The OFLC ruling, which affects film festivals and distribution companies throughout the country, makes it illegal to screen, hire or advertise Ken Park anywhere in Australia, with fines of A$11,000 and one year’s jail for individuals or A$250,000 for companies that defy the ban. There were no grounds for banning Ken Park, she said, because the actors were not children, festival audiences were required to be over 18 years, and the issues raised by the film were serious and worthy of examination by adults. It claimed that the movie involved “child sexual abuse.”įestival president Cathy Robinson told the media that the review panel had deliberately introduced the issue of “child sexual abuse” to confuse debate over the film. The Incident: Australia’s OFLC, however, declared late last month that Ken Park “offended the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults.” On June 6, a three-member OFLC review board rejected an appeal by film distributors and festival organizers, and upheld the previous decision. Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ĭescription of Artwork: Feature film attempting to deal with the personal and social difficulties facing four American teenagers. Date: 2003 Region: Australia Subject: Explicit Sexuality Medium: Film VideoĪrtist: Directed by Larry Clark and Ed Lachman.Ĭonfronting Bodies: Australian government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
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