A British filmmaker is planning a protest against the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) that involves submitting a 14-hour film of paint drying.

Charlie Lyne has launched a Kickstarter page aimed at making the board watch the footage of white paint drying on a brick wall, as part of a stance against its "stranglehold" on British film.

Lyne is criticising the board's policy of charging a £101.50 submission fee to classify a film, plus a £7.09-per-minute charge.

The BBFC must watch each film submitted to them in its entirety in order to classify it.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. For years now, I've moaned on and on about the stranglehold the BBFC has over the British film industry. Continuing in the same vein... — Charlie Shackleton (@charlieshack) November 16, 2015

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Pls support my Kickstarter campaign to make the UK's film censorship board watch paint dry https://t.co/JQmhtcmMzs pic.twitter.com/nSu6nd2Z1F — Charlie Shackleton (@charlieshack) November 16, 2015

"All the money raised by this campaign (minus Kickstarter's fees) will be put towards the cost of the certificate, so the final length of the film will be determined by how much money is raised here," Lyne wrote on Kickstarter.

"If we raise £108.59, the film will be one minute long. If we raise £526.90, it'll be an hour long. and so on."

The Kickstarter page has raised over £3,600 at the time of writing.

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