Inside Dope

Inside Dope

16mm, color and b/w, sound, 33 min
"One rainy day in Tulsa, when I was 13, the gym teacher showed our class some films in the 'mat' room. One film was about Dope: Jane's a nice girl dating Bob, and they go out in his '48 ...
Rental format: 16mm

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About

"One rainy day in Tulsa, when I was 13, the gym teacher showed our class some films in the 'mat' room. One film was about Dope: Jane's a nice girl dating Bob, and they go out in his '48 convertible and park with some friends of Bob's, rather fast friends it turns out. Pretty soon someone lights up a bent little cigarette and offers it to Jane. What's the matter is she chicken? Too late. Pretty soon she's hooked. On H. It has taken me 16 years to find a film which rivals this masterpiece. INSIDE DOPE is a pseudo-educational, fictitious documentary survey of the ups, downs, ins and far-outs of Dope. It is stunningly entertaining, because it is at once very funny and slightly sinister, like Red Skelton in the sky with diamonds. Burckhardt has assembled a star-studded cast: Edwin Denby, the silver ghost himself; beautiful naked girls Tessie Mitchell and Joan Fagin; beautiful but not naked girls Mimi Gross, Yvonne Jacquette, Gerry Jacquette, Elisabeth Rodgers and Susan Leites; dancer Bill Dunas; painters Larry Rivers. Red Grooms and Arthur Cohen; philosopher Edmund Leites; filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt and his son Jacob; and a supporting cast of thousands, including a crack drill corps of marching pills (in an animated sequence by poet Larry Fagin). The film has too many high points to mention, except for one, when a bum falls on the sidewalk and makes along distance call on a milk bottle." – Ron Padgett

Films

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    Haiti
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    Haiti
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    The Pursuit of Happiness
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    The Climate of New York
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    Mounting Tension
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    Under The Brooklyn Bridge
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    Aviary
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    What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street
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    Aviary, The/Nymphlight/A Fable For Fountains
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    Eastside Summer
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    Square Times
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    Tarzam
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    Doldrums
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    Caterpillar
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    Dwellings
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    Default Averted
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    Saroche
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    City Pasture
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    The Bottle of the Bulge
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    Times Square Films
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    Sodom and Gomorrah, New York 10036
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    "Untilted"
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    Apple, The And In Bed (Two Videos)
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