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| The video Pippi Examples was 25 minutes long and consisted of short sequences in slow motion from the Pippi Longstocking films made around 1970. The video binded together child adolescence with a possible objectifying gaze and became controversial and got a lot of attention in media in 2001. In the aftermath Swedish Film Industry (SF) was able to get all the copies of the work destroyed and made it illegal to show. Before Pippi Examples was made illegal the Swedish magazine BON (NR 2. 2001) published a interview with Palle Torsson were the video was discussed alongside stills from the video. The intention with the video was to frame how the common gaze had been sexualized since 1970 and how a period of innocence had passed. A strong reaction from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, some people involved with Pippi Longstocking and a large public spored a debate. The issues were the actual contents - it's assumption and implications and the copyright infringement of the material owned by the Swedish Film Industry (SF). SF announced that they would stop the video and took action to do so via the Swedish court of law. Based on the copyright law SF claimed the film to be illegal. "Considering a fair estimation of 10 million SKR in law costs and a process of 3 years a settlement was forced and all the copies of Pippi Examples were handed over and destroyed." This does not mean that the project Pippi Examples is over on a very basic level many questions that was raised are still unanswered. |
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