Q How far will a British filmmaker go to protest film censorship?

A Charlie Lyne made a 14-hour movie of white paint drying on a wall, and he’s hoping that the British Board of Film Classification will have to watch every second of it. The movie Paint Drying is now a crowdfunding campaign. Donations don’t go toward the cost of making the film, but for paying the fees necessary to get the British film board — the equivalent of the Motion Picture Association of America — to give it a rating. Lyne’s film is a protest of what he sees as an unfair cost for independent filmmakers who want their work released in the United Kingdom. “U.K. law ensures that, in effect, a film cannot be released in British cinemas without a BBFC certificate,” Lyne’s Kickstarter pitch reads. “Each certificate costs around £1000 (about US$650) for a feature film of average length. For many independent filmmakers, such a large upfront can prove prohibitively expensive.” Lyne is also concerned that the effectively compulsory review process leads to the censorship of films in Britain. The submission fee is 101.50 British pounds, per film, with an additional charge of £7.09 for each minute of the film’s length. That cost typically runs at a thousand pounds per film, Lyne says. The British board factors in the length of the film in question into the total cost of reviewing it, and promises to watch any submission “all the way through” before evaluating its content and assigning a rating. So the more money Lyne raises, the longer the film he can afford to submit to the board. The BFCC confirmed to Mashable that it will watch every minute, however long the film is. There are no plans to screen the very boring film for the public.