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Art gallery removes film that rated 5,000 women from "prettiest to ugliest"
Date: 2021-06-22 00:00:00

Did Mark Zuckerberg fund this movie? It's called Uglier and Uglier. The seven-hour-long film by Song Ta has images of 5,000 university students in China, rated from 1 to 5,000 by Song.

After over a million people protested the film on social media, the Shanghai gallery that had been showing the film stopped showing it and issued a statement on Weibo: "After receiving criticism, we re-evaluated the content of this artwork and the artist's explanation, we found it disrespected women, and the way it was shot has copyright infringement issues. As a museum that supports diversity, we will take this as a warning, improve our services and treat everyone with empathy."

From the BBC:

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