Still from Charles MacFarland's film Inoffensive Behavior. Charles MacFarland is an Australian videographer, photographer, and producer who makes films (available on DVD and VHS video formats) through his company Synetech Video featuring naked people in social settings. Locations include naturist resorts and beaches all over the world, including France, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Synetech also has videos about yoga, recreation, family nudity at home, body painting, and naked parties. Image File history File linksMetadata CFportal. ...
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His films aim to challenge existing laws on nudity in public places and rethink some traditional moral views on the unclothed human body and sexuality. One of the unique approaches MacFarland has used is interviewing people on the street who witness his film subjects go naked in public. He also has shot his subjects at a distance to see if removing the camera from the film shoot would affect how people respond to the unexpected nudity without knowing the subject is being filmed or they are being filmed. This approach was also used in the Allen Funt film What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1960). Nudism, or naturism, is the practice of going nude or unclothed in social and usually mixed gender groups, specifically in cultures where this is not the norm. ...
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Charles MacFarland received a B.S. in Physics at MIT and taught Physics in the Peace Corps in Malaysia. Then he did an M.A. in English at the University of Virginia, after which he emigrated to Australia and taught English and Physics for about 12 years.[1] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 34 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ...
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In 2003, Charles collaborated with Body Freedom Collaborative in producing Naked In-Sight. Daniel Johnson wanted to produce a film with segments he felt were groundbreaking in film dealing with society's response to public nudity. Charles agreed to provide segments from his various videos on the topic and Mark Storey, BFC's co-founder, directed the film, while Johnson carried out the editing as directed by Storey. Mark Storey, gave this description of the 47-minute documentary in advance of the premiere screening at the 2004 Naked Freedom Film Festival in Seattle: "Australian videographer Charles MacFarland contends that laws against public nudity are obsolete. His films record women and men as they walk naked in public, usually to the amusement and applause of those who pass them by. Naked In-Sight explores MacFarland's vision of a naked society, where offense at mere nudity is a thing of the past. [2] Poster for BFCs Free Beach Trilogy Ad for BFCs Naked Freedom Film Festival in 2004 in Seattle, Washington; the ad ran in the newspaper The Stranger The Body Freedom Collaborative (BFC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the integration and acceptance of non-sexual social nudity in...
Daniel Lorenz Johnson (right) being arrested Daniel Lorenz Johnson (born May 24, 1974) is an American artist, activist and writer who has worked for the advancement of clothing-optional opportunities on public lands through interdisciplinarity, collaborative projects involving media art, popular culture, and progressive politics (including ecological economics, environmental issues...
Nudism, or naturism, is the practice of going nude or unclothed in social and usually mixed gender groups, specifically in cultures where this is not the norm. ...
Mark Storey is a board member of the Naturist Action Committee and has testified at anti-nudity legislation hearings all over the country. ...
Criticism
Gender and body diversity MacFarland has been criticized for featuring mainly conventionally attractive, younger women in many of his films. This issue was addressed by MacFarland in the film Naked In-Sight.
Sexual content For many naturists and nudists, it is taboo to include footage of nudity which includes overtly sexual activities in the context of nudist/naturist film. Controversy surrounded Charles' latest work called "Adventures in Freedom 3", which included nudity in some sensual and sexualized contexts. Some of the films include segments which include female masturbation. Nude & Natural magazine, a publication of The Naturist Society subsequently dropped advertising for his body of films. Bredene nude beach in Belgium. ...
Mulher Sentada de Coxas Abertas, Drawing 1916 by Gustav Klimt Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sexual organs, most often to the point of orgasm. ...
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The Naturist Society (TNS) is a national organization for North American naturism or nudism based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the U.S.A. It publishes a quarterly periodical called Nude and Natural which documents and coordinates naturist activities and provides information about issues related to naturism. ...
Charles later released a series of films which had more sensual and sexual content in a series called The Free & Wild. These videos were not marketed as purely naturist films. On his Web site, Charles says of this latest video series: "The Free & Wild videos are not really naturist videos, but they celebrate the liberation which is the foundation of naturism. Naturism can never succeed as long as women are not free." [3]
Filmography  A naked beach rally at Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, Australia on 6 April 1997. From MacFarland's film Naked Celebrations.  Naked women riding horses in the Czech Republic. From MacFarland's film Naked in Public 1. - Most movies were rated by the Australian OFLC, except for some rated PG or less.
- Free & Wild series
- Free & Wild 8: Sexy Fun, rated R, 82 mins
- Free & Wild 7: Peace and Freedom, rated R, 86 mins
- Free & Wild 6: Sensations, rated R, 80 mins
- Free & Wild 5: Girls Together, rated R, 84 mins
- Free & Wild 4: Girl Touch, rated R, 75 mins
- Free & Wild 3: Sensory Wonder, rated R, 56 mins
- Free & Wild 2: Spirit in Motion, rated MA15+, 61 mins
- Free & Wild 1: Party Naked, rated R, 56 mins
- Naturism in the Raw series
- Naked Fun (2 DVDs), rated PG, 180 mins
- Free Parties (2 DVDs), rated PG, 180 mins
- Naturist Resorts & Beaches series
- The Grand Barn, rated M, 74 mins
- Running Out Of Clothes, 2002, rated PG, 57 mins
- Freedom Weekends, 2001, rated PG, 66 mins
- Naked Lifestyles 2, rated PG, 55:10 mins, Sept 1995
- Naked Lifestyles 1, rated PG, 45:40 mins, June 2004
- Surrender to the Sun 2, rated PG, 53 mins
- Surrender to the Sun 1, rated PG, 53 mins
- Party Night and Day, rated M, 64 mins
- Nude Beaches of Australia, rated PG, 57 mins
- River Island Nature Retreat, rated PG, 56 mins
- New Directions series
- Naked Yoga, rated PG, 78 mins
- Visions of Yoga, rated PG, 85 mins
- Body Love Mud Art, rated M, 58 mins
- The Gathering Spirit, rated PG, 49:!2 mins, June 1994
- Life in Eden, 2001, rated PG, 58 mins
- Czech Video series
- Czech Naturist Paradise 3, rated PG, 57 mins
- Czech Naturist Paradise 2, rated PG, 64 mins
- Czech Naturist Paradise 1, rated PG, 58 mins
- Czech Freedom 2, rated PG, 76 mins
- Czech Freedom 1, rated PG, 53 mins
- Previews from Synetech, 58 mins, featuring 3-4 minutes from the first 13 Synetech titles, plus extra footage on the Naturist France Deluxe video series!
- Naked Dance II, rated PG, 49:44 mins, March 1998
- Sensual Health II, rated PG, 56:18 mins, June 1997
- Sensual Health I, rated PG, 53:00 mins, May 1996
- Naturist France Deluxe series
- Vol 8: La Petite Brenne, rated PG, 40:26 mins, March 1998
- Vol 7: Roshelle In France, rated PG, 57:46 mins, Dec 1997
- Vol 6: Domaine Le Clols, rated PG, 37:48 mins, April 1997
- Vol 5: Return to La Sabliere II, rated PG, 54:23 mins, Dec 1996
- Vol 4: Return to La Sabliere I, rated PG, 54:58 mins, Dec 1996
- Vol 3: Belezy, rated PG, 52:15 mins, March 1996
- Vol 2: Laborde, rated PG, 56:35 mins, Jan 1996
- Vol 1: La Sabliere , rated PG, 58:30 mins, Dec 1995
- The Circle of the Earth (Naked Dance 1), rated PG, 48:52 mins, Feb 1994
- Naked Paradise, rated PG, 48:10 mins, Aug 1993
- Magical Nudes, rated PG, 40:28 mins, June 1993
- Summer's Garden, rated PG, 40:23 mins, Sept 1992
- Beauty of the Nude and Goddess of the Earth Combination Video, 60 mins
- Goddess of the Earth, rated PG, 30:25, March 1992
- The Beauty of the Nude, rated PG, 25:36 mins, July 1991
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Publications - Natural in Paradise by Charles MacFarland
Reviews The following reviews are available on Charles MacFarland's Web site [4] The Naturist Society (TNS) is a national organization for North American naturism or nudism based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the U.S.A. It publishes a quarterly periodical called Nude and Natural which documents and coordinates naturist activities and provides information about issues related to naturism. ...
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The Naturist Society (TNS) is a national organization for North American naturism or nudism based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the U.S.A. It publishes a quarterly periodical called Nude and Natural which documents and coordinates naturist activities and provides information about issues related to naturism. ...
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See also Nudism, or naturism, is the practice of going nude or unclothed in social and usually mixed gender groups, specifically in cultures where this is not the norm. ...
External links - Synetech Video Official site of Charles MacFarland's main body of video work.
- Charles MacFarland's Science And Morality series of essays
- Charles MacFarland - Art Photography
- Naked Freedom Film Festival Charles MacFarland's films featured in a documentary Naked In-Sight, which premiered at this festival.
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