I’m a multi-award winning indie filmmaker often dealing with the visual arts who’s shown at MoMA with my no budget experimental films on Picasso/ Pollock & others. I signed this protest as it will be a fantastic encroachment not only on my own one camera ongoing personal videoing & archivist activities as a NYC artist & indie filmmaker — but can also see that it will greatly affect all our liberties. It will especially affect my whole style of creative freedom I’ve experienced for decades for my “ArtSeen” cable show & my many no budget ongoing experimental indie film projects.

There’s no way I could possibly suffer through the bureaucracy & tremendous insurance expense of those requirements — which I would likely have to renew almost daily based on my many ongoing projects. This process would shut off my creative spontaneity from the start. I even wonder if the proposed law will be interpreted to affect even one camera person interviewing one person which indeed makes a total of two people — or even shooting the city environment?
Perhaps so as this isn’t been made at all clear!

Once this proposed law is in place it will create a climate of fear — of denial of creative expression for everyone. And indeed what about all the thousands of video cameras already installed in NYC by the NYC government for surveillance?

You need to come to your senses!
This is nasty big brother control business effecting all of society.

Bill Rabinovitch