Smut Hounds
Synopsis
Itās a story that made headlines: āFestival Film Banned!ā In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the āOpen Mouth Kissingā. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too āinappropriateā and āmorally corruptingā for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.
Where to watch
Not currently available to stream in United States.
