Screenings:
Saturday, April 29, 11:00 PM, Charles 5
Sunday, April 30, 1: 30 PM, Charles 5

Trash tells the story of the heroin addicted Joe who lives with his junk collecting girlfriend, Holly. Joe's habit leaves him impotent-a bad side-effect since he makes a living as a hustler. Holly's efforts to create a normal life for them are constantly thwarted as she tries to raise the money necessary to adopt the unwanted child of her pregnant sister. This Warhol production presents distinctive characters in a truthful picture of an aimless and disconnected period of American life.

Paul Morrissey made the film almost single-handedly-the only other person given technical credit was an assistant who monitored sound. It is worthy of note that Morrissey made Trash in a direct style made fashionable by the "Dogme 95" school of filmmaking, an aesthetic which champions the notion that simplicity of technical means is the way to arrive at a truthful version of reality. Now that the Dogme school of filmmaking is firmly entrenched in the world of independent cinema (Mifume and julien donkey-boy are recent releases made under the strict tenants of the manifesto), the 30th Anniversary of Trash suggests that Morrissey was indeed ahead of his time.

Tidbit:
Trash total budget: $3,000 Waterworld total budget: $175,000,000 Conclusion: Kevin Costner spent 58,333 times more money than Paul Morrissey and still got trash.