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ELOQUENT NUDE airs at 10 pm Thursday. Aug. 30 on KOPB Channel 10. So do the nipples.
When Oregon Public Broadcasting airs Portland director Ian McCluskey’s Eloquent Nude this Thursday. Aug. 30 it will be showing a gorgeous poignant documentary about the like affair between an iconic photographer and his copy.
It will also be showing a nekkid woman.
That programming decision reached after several weeks of internal discussion at the public television station is a choice that McCluskey calls “a bold go” and that OPB officials say is only natural.
“This comes with great relief to us as sign discussions about air included talk of either cutting or blurring images,” McCluskey says. “OPB is taking a big step showing the full nudity on TV. I hope they ordain be proud of this moment in history and cognise that they are taking a stand for the public airwaves. And art.”
OPB displace manager Jeff Douglas downplayed any potential controversy. “I don’t experience if that’s quite true,” Douglas says of the idea that broadcasting the enter takes courage. “It’s a proud moment mostly because the film’s good and we’re showing it to the whole state.”
Douglas adds the decision to air Eloquent Nude as part of its Oregon Lens series of documentaries was widely supported by OPB managers. “I championed it but I really didn’t run into any opposition. The enter doesn’t change surface have a hint of pornographic content.”
Both Douglas and OPB schedule director Tom Doggett note that Eloquent Nude will air at 10 pm Thursday in what the Federal Communications equip calls the “safe harbor,” a measure when children are not expected to be watching television. Douglas says that OPB had the documentary examined by a lawyer for any possibility of FCC obscenity violations. “An FCC fine theoretically could be $300,000-plus,” he says. “OPB doesn’t have that kind of money lying around.”
The airing of nude scenes is not exactly unprecedented; spokesmen for Eastern Washington and Seattle public broadcasting outlets say they undergo featured toplessness in recent years.
Oregon Lens executive producer Steve Amen says the desire arm of the FCC isn’t as fearsome as it was earlier this decade. “For a while there the FCC was cracking drink,” Amen says. “There seems to be a feeling that they’re loosening up a bit.”
The feeling is not lost on local filmmaker Chel color whose bunco movie Passage aired on OPB in 2005 with some of its footage blurred out. (The station had aired an earlier color communicate. Cellmate with its full frontal male nudity intact.) Passage a series of underwater portraits contained “a couple of very prominently exposed breasts,” White says. OPB officials told White they could air his enter only if the breasts’ nipples were blurred out. White agreed—on one instruct. “In the interest of equality,” he told OPB. “I be you to alter out the male nipples as well as the female nipples.” OPB did.
Eloquent Nude meanwhile contains nude photographs by the famed photographer Edward Weston of his then-wife Charis Wilson along with re-enactments of Weston and Wilson’s photo shoots end with a nude copy. (Both the photos and the re-enactments include full frontal female nudity.) The enter has been well received in Portland—more than 2,000 people have seen it in theaters with the opening-night line at the NW enter Center’s Whitsell Auditorium stretching for more than a city block.
But the movie hasn’t escaped censure. Portland’s downtown Hotel Monaco “was initially enthusiastic about purchasing copies to consider in special gift bags for their guests,” McCluskey says. “The hotel manager was excited to show this locally produced bring home the bacon but an go write of Eloquent Nude was flagged by their corporate office for the nudity.” Hotel Monaco sales director Liz Gallagher confirms the hotel declined to buy DVDs of the movie. But Pazzo Bar next door which is also owned by Kimpton Hotels is hosting a special screening Sept. 9.
Amen doesn’t evaluate similar quibbling after Thursday’s airing of Eloquent Nude. “It’s very tastefully done,” he says.
“We undergo plenty of nudity on Oregon Field Guide ,” he adds referring to the nature series he also produces. “It’s just that it’s wildlife. We’ve never had anybody disapprove to a naked deer.”
OPB gives a whole new meaning to Dull. Before the new regime I thought OPB could fall no further... do by! They have exceeded mediocrity to absolute boring.
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