This article was first published in Metro Magazine, Issue 149, 2006.
It is re-published here with permission from the author and Metro (thank you, Peter Tapp).
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Pure Shit screened on Sunday, December 8, in Melbourne, at Long Play, as part of the Unknown Pleasures series. Check the Facebook Event Page.

Adrian Danks is Associate Dean of Media at RMIT University and co-curator of the Melbourne Cinematheque. His most recent book is American-Australian Cinema (Palgrave; co-edited by Steve Gaunson and Peter Kunze).