Jeff Reads "Song of the Open Road" from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. [...]
Sophia reads from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. [...]
Gary reads from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
Christine reads from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
Alex reads from Ulysses by James Joyce at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that [...]
Gabriel reads from Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
Noelle and Michael read from William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Martha reads from James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos [...]
Shawna reads from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Samantha reads from Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These [...]
Rich reads from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
Micheline reads from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
Jacob reads from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of [...]
Lauren reads from William Golding's Lord of the Flies at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part [...]
https://ncac.org Video from the National Coalition Against Censorship's Banned Books Readout Booth at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival. Over 100 festival-goers read aloud from our Banned Books Library for our cameras in honor of Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1). Download a PDF of our library titles, including why they were challenged or banned, here: http://ncac.org/storage/banned_books_catalog_2011.pdf See more from the [...]
Tom reads from Allen Ginsberg's Howl at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that series. [...]
Juliette reads from Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are [...]
Jacob reads from Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On September 18, 2011, the National Coalition Against Censorship organized FREE SPEECH ZONE, a read-out of banned books at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The NCAC set up a library of censored and challenged books and invited people to read passages from them. These videos are part of that [...]
In honor of Banned Books Week, Whoopi Goldberg delights in one of her favorite Shel Silverstein poems
Newsweek and Daily Beast art critic Blake Gopnik on why he believed the premise of the Smithsonian's "Flashpoints and Fault Lines" forum in the wake of the censorship of David Wojnarowicz from the National Portrait Gallery was faulty, why the controversy over Wojnarowicz's video was phony, and why it's important to back up the decisions of progressive curators.
During the final weeks of the exhibition "Pornucopia" at Allegra DeViola Gallery in the Lower Eastside in Manhattan, in March, 2011, controversy struck, when the news media reported that an Orthodox Yeshiva allegedly called the police on the gallery. This is a video examining how the media reports on nudes in art.
It's scary how timely The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary chronicling a high school student’s campaign to bring alternatives to abstinence-only education to her school in Lubbock, Texas, is even to us today.
The Price of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance, produced in 2005, is NCAC's DVD highlighting art censorship controversies throughout the 20th century. It premiered at the art exhibit "Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship" at Georgia State University.
Policing The Sacred, organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship, looks at the volatile relationship between art, politics and religion.In recent decades the tensions between these issues have become intense, evident in the American culture wars of the 90s, the Danish cartoon uproar, and ongoing battles over artistic depictions of religious figures, including the recent removal of a David Wojnarowicz [...]
Policing The Sacred, organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship, looks at the volatile relationship between art, politics and religion.In recent decades the tensions between these issues have become intense, evident in the American culture wars of the 90s, the Danish cartoon uproar, and ongoing battles over artistic depictions of religious figures, including the recent removal of a David Wojnarowicz [...]
On Sunday, December 19, 2010, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the Smithsonian Institution's decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's video The Fire in My Belly from the Hide/Seek Exhibit. The protesters marched from the Metropolitan to the Cooper Hewitt Museum, a branch of the Smithsonian. The march was organized by Art+. For [...]
Students and volunteer artists got together during the Starting Artists Afterschool Program to create this experimental music video public service announcement. First, we created a grid of nails using fabric and particleboard. We made a grid in order to spell out recognizable text messages using rubber bands that make up each letter. We brainstormed popular text message abbreviations and we [...]
My film is based upon censorship and my question to the people is whether you think sex, violence and profanity should be censored in the media. The reason why I choose that topic is because its an ongoing fact around the world among most teenagers. So i interviewed different individuals to get their opinion on the topic.
This film demonstrates our first amendment right. It is the story of a high school boy who went missing due to his demonstrations of free speech. It interviews people he knew about how he was before he went missing. This film shows that we are not really free to speak of whatever our minds please.
Our music video expresses this idea, “You can’t stop me.” It wants to tell others that as United States’ citizen, we are like an uncensored nation entitled to free speech. In the Constitution, the First Amendment states that the congress shall state no law abridging the freedom of speech. We intended on expressing our ideas freely, without censorship. We believe [...]
In this digital age, teenagers forget the importance of consideration for others around them. Online, people cannot directly see who they talk to, so people swear without thinking of consequences. This transfers into their daily lives. From just walking home after school to going out to the mall, everywhere teens disregard who is in their company. When someone is in [...]
There have been an increasing number of stories in the news about students turning to suicide because of being bullied. Ben Scharding was the most brilliant human I've ever met. He was a genius, but often his fellow classmates only saw him as "different." On the morning of December 2nd, 2008, Ben laid down on the train tracks behind his [...]
In my film, I talk about public speech, what it is, why it should be censored, and how.I chose the topic of public speech to be censored because I have found it very offending and uncomfortable to be out at the store or in a public area and hear some of the things people have said! Like I said in [...]
The short film "Censorship" symbolizes censorship today. There are two "artists" symbolizing the various artists in our society, including: Filmmakers, Authors, Musicians, etc. "Artist One" is creating a controversial piece, while "Artist Two" is creating a vulgar piece. The two "Men in Black" symbolize the government, book banning communities, and other censorship groups. In the video they walk past "Artist [...]
My Free Speech video has gone through a lot of permutations to get to its final form. Originally, it was going to be about people protesting against a Muslim Mosque being built in my local area. The idea was hard to illustrate with film, though, so I used an animation software to create three brightly colored characters to illustrate my [...]
We brought in around 6-10 kids who had no idea what we were doing, and we gave them a lesson on banned books and tried to explain to them about why books should not be banned.
My film asks three questions to three people of different professional backgrounds: Why do you like free speech? Should some speech be censored? and What is your opinion on the evolution of speech via new media-related mediums? I set the video to the song "Raining Again" by Moby to set a mood of reflection to the video because I feel [...]
I am making this film for two reasons one is because I want to get the scholarship for the community college I will be attending. The second reason is that I want to express why some parts of religion should be censored. It is also a way in which I can learn how to improve in using the computer because [...]
This animated short from teen filmmaker Aaron Dunbar won NCAC's 2010 Youth Free Expression Project Film Contest. The year's theme was "I'm All For Free Speech, But..." Statement from the filmmaker: As free speech is designed to protect truth and freedom, the widespread distribution of ideas that are either objectively false or presented as truth without substantiation is clearly unacceptable. In [...]
This film is just my very own self centered view of censorship. It’s personal; I even mentioned that in the film itself. It shows my own perspective about censorship to make people think about their own opinion because they do have their own. The purpose of this film is just to make people think about themselves and about others by [...]
