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This is a film I've made using stop-motion photography - 35 mm stills.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8423436038013584813&hl=en

Thank you for your time. It is an honor to be able to share my work.

Sincerely,
M. Woods

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This is a film I've made using stop-motion photography - 35 mm stills.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8423436038013584813&hl=en

Thank you for your time. It is an honor to be able to share my work.

Sincerely,
M. Woods

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Nice piece of work :)
The TV screen looks like a gag on the girl's mouth at the end (repression through self-satisfaction?)

It's a pity the YT conversion hurts your film so much. Video streaming codecs are not made for this kind of films.

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I very much enjoyed that piece, you really are achieving what it seems you have set out to do in the Dis-Association manifesto. Going by what's written in this manifesto my assumptions and judgements are most likely redundant, but I'll say them anyway... towards the end you went to solely using the computer generated voice, and I understood that. However during the middle section it faded in and out, and every time it said "cunt" (something very powerful and a shocking to the apathetic viewer, as you've mentioned), it was the computer generated voice. This is not intended as an attack, but for me to understand a little better who you are - did you record the female voice saying the "stronger" stuff, or did you know for the outset that the computer generated voice would be saying these bits? For me it instantly shouted out to me that you did know... it felt to me like in a mainstream movie that shows nudity of a huge star, the body is often a double (not so much recently but over the decades) - in the same way that rather than getting the woman to say these things, the more power words were distanced from her.

Then again a second interpretation could be that it was only "that side" of the character that could say and do such things, hence the difference in voice.

Regardless of the content interpretation, I felt the stronger words would have had a more interrupting impact to the apathetic viewer if they had been spoken by a human voice.

As I said though I really really liked the piece... do you have a better quality upload of the piece anywhere, I think I'd like to show it to my class if I get the chance to.

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Hello ladies and gentlemen,
the kind people at youtube have decided my video is unfitting for human consumption and have removed it. I am emailing them to get it back up. I find it kind of disconcerting given how many violent and sexually exploitative films call youtube home, but hopefully with an age restriction I'll be able to post my video. Do any of you know of a posting sight which doesn't censor your work?

Sincerely,
M. Woods

And thank you for your comments.

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I'm sorry to hear of your situation Mr Woods. I think maybe if you had marked your video for adults only then maybe they would have kept it up there. However I think it's utterly ridiculous that they removed it considering the clearly "artistic" (ugh, can't find a better word) approach to the work.

[url=http://www.metacafe.com/]Metacafe[/url] is a personal favourite of mine, they're similar to Youtube, have a large amount of viewers too, yet they allow pretty much anything.

Marcos Ortega's picture
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A sad situation, but unfortunately not at all unexpected :-(
Most video streaming webs (even Metacafe) would eventually end up banning your video, because it contains "sexually explicit content", whatever its purpose.

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Hmm, I beg to differ. Seeing as Metacafe has a "family filter", and I personally know they host sexually explicit works, I'm sure your relatively tame piece would suit fine on there. I'm still shocked that Youtube took it down. I'd like to see their reasoning.

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[quote author=SavageMonkey link=topic=10263.msg10413#msg10413 date=1177240599]
Hmm, I beg to differ. Seeing as Metacafe has a "family filter", and I personally know they host sexually explicit works, I'm sure your relatively tame piece would suit fine on there.
[/quote]

That's what their "submission rules" state, but if you say so, it's well worth a try  :)

Back to the film: I agreee with SavageMonkey. "Penetration" is fully coherent with the Disassociative manifesto, even in its banning from YT (re. "Obscenity"). It's hard to comment on the film's message without repeating the manifesto.

One thing about the manifesto itself, though: don't you think that these kinds of manifestoes are always destined to be shortly-lived? The moment they fulfill their goal, they become useless. Their strength lie more in their being "combative", fighting or denouncing a situation, but they rarely propose its substitute.

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[quote author=Marcos Ortega link=topic=10263.msg10414#msg10414 date=1177256083]
That's what their "submission rules" state, but if you say so, it's well worth a try  :)
[/quote]
Ah I apologise then, I have not actually read the rules, I was just talking from experience being a user on that site. I think they may be covering their own backs by saying that, so while they don't condone adult/strong material, they do not attempt to stop it either.

Also, as I said, "XXX PENETRATION XXX" wasn't that explicit, in fact, as I said above, it was fairly tame. It said "cunt" several times, and their was nothing graphic shown in the image. Was the girl implied to be "under age", I can't remember? If so that could be their only problem, but still, nothing was shown so I don't see the harm. I would bet money that Metacafe would not take it down.

I think you're partly to blame Mr Woods, not the video, as you wrote something along the lines "Strong disturbing images" in the description - that was bound to be flagged up on Youtube's end.

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The actress, Emmy Yu, may have a young quality about her, but if she were implied to be underage it was completely subconscious. I guess the young quality and innocent quality kind of go hand in hand. Thank you for your advice. Currently youtube is re-reviewing the video. If they do not re-post, I will, and knowing the youtube system, they'll probably let it slip through the cracks until this happens again; this time I'll make sure that it is blocked. And, I also agree that it isn't sexually explicit in the way that some videos are. There is no actual nuditiy, but I believe it is the disturbing nature that has gotten it removed, which I feel is disturbing in itself. If my video were more entertainment and if it had a bunch of "girls gone wild" mud wrestling it'd be fine - I say this knowing that there is a video that gets associated with mine that is footage of a Brazilian game show in which women are mud wrestling in string bikinis. That's life.
Sincerely,
M. WOods

P.S. Thanks again for all the suggestions.

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Now you can watch Penetration on google video. Go to the top post and click the link.

Sincerely,
M. Woods

Marcos Ortega's picture
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Fantastic!
Great to have it back :)

Anonymous's picture
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powerful stuff.

Anonymous's picture
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Great Stuff

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[quote author=sirwoody88 link=topic=10263.msg10395#msg10395 date=1177040796]
This is a film I've made using stop-motion photography - 35 mm stills.

http://www.dvduz.com/The-West-Wing-DVD-Season-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-p-564.html

Thank you for your time. It is an honor to be able to share my work.

Sincerely,
M. Woods
[/quote]

hey, really a great job! im enjoy it!! ;D

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I tried to watch it but it was unavailable
Is there a recent link?
Thanks

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