Projects

Exhibition from October 7 to October 21, 2007

KLIPZENSORED
Rock Music in Film | Television |Music Clips and Media Censorship in Hungary, GDR
and post-1990 Germany

Banned! Censored! Confiscated! This is what we often associate with art and culture from the so-called "East Bloc" and this also applies to music clips and other forms of audiovisual presentation of popular music. Completed films and/or scripts usually had to pass through some forms of state control (broadcasting supervisory boards, cultural institutions etc.) that evaluated the works' political and moral appropriateness before they could be shown on TV music programs or in cinemas, youth clubs etc. Whatever didn't conform to the system, that is what was "morally objectionable", counterrevolutionary, without class consciousness or often merely critical, was not shown. Or pulled out of circulation after the fact as soon as possible, as was the case in some countries when certain artists were banned or became "non-persons" after emigrating or being expelled.
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