Pure Shit

(1975)

Traces the lives of four young heroin addicts journey through Melbourne's drug-culture of the mid-seventies. When a woman dies of a drug overdose, three other addicts steal her car, buy bad drugs, rob a chemist shop, fight a manic, wealthy addict, and one of them ends up in hospital. The others try to rescue him.

The film is constructed entirely from the experiences of those appearing in the film. Overlapping dialogue, violent colours and frenetic movement within a black-comedy style, Bert Deling's aim was to capture the hysteria of the drug-taker's lifestyle and communicate the realities of the drug scene. Made on a budget of $28,000 partly provided by the Film, Radio and Television Board of the Australia Council, and partly by Buoyancy Foundation, an organisation to help drug-users.      -- NFSA