In 2023, an independent film-maker, Charlie Shackleton, shot and directed a film entitled “Paint Drying”, which is a literal film of 10 hours, 7 minutes, of paint drying.
It is a single continuous shot, without audio, of a brick wall painted white and proceeding to dry.
Shackleton created it as a protest statement; for film-makers to have their films screened, they must be rated by classification boards, this has a cost based on the length of the film in question. Shackleton raised nearly £6,000 via Kickstarter to make this as long as possible for the BBFC to classify it since they would have to watch the entirety of it to ensure it did not contain anything inappropriate.
The film has a U - Universal, Suitable for All classification.