February ?, 1981 Hawthorn tip, Camberwell, AUS

Paul Goldman in the Australian Daily Telegraph (March 16, 2016)

“We got permission to use the tip from the local council who had no idea what we doing,” Goldman recalls. “We bussed in a whole lot of people from a psychiatric hospital. They all dressed up in costumes, we invited a lot of people from the Crystal Ballroom scene from the era, we also put the world out on RRR. We got an apprentice electrician to illegally tap into power. We set fire to parts of the tip and the fire brigade and police turned up. We had explosives there. It was all pretty illegal.” It took ten hours to shoot, we ran out of fuel for the fires so people tore down back fences from nearby homes.

The video was meant to be a slap in the face, it was banned from Australian TV for a long time because of complaints from viewers.

Goldman says the video cost around $2000, but he had ways of keeping the cost down. “I was at Swinburne film school, various students helped me sneak the equipment out over 24 hours and I stole half the film stock from the school.”