Pure S

Pure S has been passed by the Censor and restricted to Card holders at this festival only. From the press blurb : "In spite of a stormy reception from film critics, social commentators and censors, 'Pure Shit' shared the prize for the most creative entry' in the 1976 Australian Film Awards".

"I think drugs generally have been an extremely mixed blessing for this generation, and I think there's an excellent case to be made that drugs have channelled off a lot of energy, which under other circumstances might have been used very productively. Depending on how paranoid I am at any given moment, I think of that as either an historical accident or a brilliant example of social engineering.

"We wrote the script out of their own experiences. There is nothing in the film that they hadn't experienced themselves. The only kind of distortion is that instead of it being made up of all the stories about what happened in the Melbourne drug scene in the last two years, it was set in a 48 hour period." (Director Bert Deling).