Sunday, May 16, 7:30pm, at 911 Media Arts Center: |
Public Nudity 101
This night's immersive lineup will feature films exploring society's response to non-sexualized, free-range nakedness, in urban and rural environments.
World Premiere! Naked In-Sight
Documentary Director/Producer: Mark Storey. Editor & additional videography: Daniel Johnson. A BFC Production. Director/Producer of original Synetech video segments: Charles MacFarland. ~30 mins, MiniDV, 2004
Photos above and below from Mt. Warning segment on Naked Travels 1. Courtesy of Charles MacFarland / Synetech Video. More info below.
Synopsis
Australian videographer Charles MacFarland contends that laws against public nudity are obsolete. His films record women and men as they walk naked in public, usually to the amusement and applause of those who pass them by. Naked In-Sight explores MacFarland's vision of a naked society, where offense at mere nudity is a thing of the past.
Photo above from Naked Celebrations. Courtesy of Charles MacFarland / Synetech Video. More info below.
Publicity photo from Naked in Public 2 (2004) courtesy of Charles MacFarland / Synetech Video (synetechvideo.com). Address is Synetech Video Co, PO Box 1137, Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA. The toll free number is 1 (877)-NUDE-LIFE which is 1 (877) - 683-3543.
Northwest Premiere! Incarnating for an Afternoon: The 9th Annual Nude & Breast Freedom Parade
A film by Marty Kent, 40 min, 2002
Produced by The X-plicit Players (xplicitplayers.com)
Synopsis
Directed by the X-plicit Players, the Parade is a series of spontaneous rituals celebrating the Body and its Liberation. By the 9th Annual, the X-plicits had already staged more than 300 public nude events, played with thousands of people, experienced 23 arrests, and fought and won 4 trials in the local courts.
A mix of freedom-lovers, nudists, voyeurs and innocent bystanders gather, undress and put their bodies together. Their "group body" coalesces in the park, dances into the street for a couple of hours, then returns and gives up the ghost. We watch all this through the eyes of videographers in the midst of the action.
Screening & Award Highlights:
Chosen Best of Festival, Documentary; 2003 Berkeley Film & Video Festival. Previously shown in various public screenings in Berkeley and San Francisco
More information can be found at http://www.xplicitplayers.com/Incarnating.html
Marty Kent
Photograph of Marty Kent. Taken when the X-plicits led a group of students to occupy a building on the campus of Hampshire University in order to hold a 5-hour nude performance
Since 1992, Marty Kent and Debbie Moore have directed and written for the X-plicit Players performance group. They've brought their participatory nude performance to theaters in many American cities, held more than 350 nude events in the streets and parks of the Berkeley area, and dealt with many media and legal functionaries.
Marty has also been a performing musician and a research scientist. This is his third video documenting the adventures of the X-plicit Players.