Press
Release Summary: Three minute video wins Humanita award, but runs
afoul of national censors
Press
Release Body: A short video available on common video sites, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRHwIlPFM)
has won an award for educational content, but has been banned
in three countries.
"Evolution of the Nude" by the MissionArtGroup
details the history of depictions of the female form in art over
the last 3000 years. Each image morphs into the next one, giving
a fuzzy feeling of having seen artistic history progress from
the Venus de Milo to the present.
Though
the video won the Humanita Award, given to short
internet videos which convey significant educational content,
it has been banned in countries where even artistic depictions
of the naked body are in questionable taste.
The
MissionArtGroup is considering whether to re-edit
the work to make it more acceptable, but the existing version
will remain online for some time.
2012
