[Frameworks] Fwd: Petition for Lawrence Brose

[Scott MacDonald]

*Dear FRAMEWORKERS,
     You may have heard about Lawrence Brose's struggle with Homeland
"Security" in Buffalo, and you may have wanted additional information
about this case and an idea of what you might be about to do about the
situation.
     Dominique Bluher and I have put together a petition. Please see if
this is something you can sign.

Happy Holidays, and all the best,
Scott**
*


Deeply troubled by the current effort by American federal authorities in
> Buffalo to besmirch the reputation and destroy the career of Lawrence
> Brose, one of the artistic treasures of Western New York State, we started
> a petition to support Lawrence Brose.
>
> Those who are familiar with Brose’s career know that while his work is
> sensuous and sensual, it is anything but obscene. Indeed to charge, as the
> Department of Homeland Security in Buffalo has, that the beautiful
> silkscreens made from frame sequences of his film *De Profundis* are
> evidence of “child pornography” is nothing short of preposterous.
>
> Of course Brose has vehemently denied the charges against him and has,
> year after year, struggled to maintain his life and his career. The
> seemingly endless process of trying to wear him down appears to be an
> instance of the powers-that-be refusing to admit that, in this case, they
> have made the fundamental error of confusing serious, passionate art-making
> with something else.
>
> That Brose is gay and that *De Profundis* and some of Brose’s other work
> has been committed to the idea that human beings have the right to
> recognize the nature of their sexual desires and to decide how to pursue
> these desires with other like-minded, even Queer (adult) souls seems to
> have had much to do with the charges against him.
>
> It is time to free Brose from the stress and fear of being convicted of
> the “crime” of being a man of integrity and an accomplished artist.
>
> Click here <http://artvoice.com/issues/v11n45/guest_essay> to read a
> recent article about the case by William C. Altreuter.
> Link to Lawrence Brose Legal Defense Fund
> <http://lawrencebroselegaldefensefund.com/>
> *You can sign the petition here
> <https://www.change.org/petitions/to-the-department-of-homeland-security-in-buffalo-ny-dismissal-of-the-inditement-of-lawrence-brose>
> *
> *Please circulate this email to all your friends and networks.
> **Thank you!
> *
> Scott MacDonald
> Professor of Film History, Hamilton College, Harvard University
> 2012 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar
>
> and
> Dominique Bluher
> Lecturer on Visual & Environmental Studies
> Harvard University
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