THE OLD STRIPPER
A Feature Documentary Film
Featuring Opal Dockery
Directed by Jack Truman
THE OLD STRIPPER Documentary Film is primarily about a cross country road trip of me exploring my old dancing cities across the country.
But this film is so much more than that.
In this film, I want to take about 2 to 3 months to travel across the country to several cities I danced in back in the 60's and 70's. I want to go to the burlesque theater locations to see if they are still standing, and if not, what is in their place. I also want to interview people who remember the theater there and possible former customers.
This documentary will be very interesting as it brings to life this lost era.
But equally important and a big theme I want to weave into this film will be the human element of strippers. I want to show where strippers are human too. So many in our society think of us as saturations of sex. Dancing is just a job to strippers. Like any other job. That I know and have known - nothing more.
People said that women in the strip clubs were exploited. I never felt exploited. I never felt used. I always felt that I was using and exploiting the men for what I could get out of them. With this theme of the human element, I want to interview current day strippers and other old strippers from my time, to show the difference in the cultures, their viewpoints of the business and relate their feelings about the job.
My son, award winning independent filmmaker Jack Truman, is also the director of the film. He was raised as a child in that environment starting when he was 6 years old. So a big part of the film will be from a viewpoint angle of Jack's as a filmmaker in a Michael Moore style of filmmaking.
There will be interviews with my children as to their views on this type of life, and their feelings of being raised this way.
This film will be shot in a very personal way with the road trip, interviews with family, friends, strippers, celebrities who worked and grew up in that era, and people who remember that time. Everything combined will make for a great story of a unique documentary that only I can make.
But this film is so much more than that.
In this film, I want to take about 2 to 3 months to travel across the country to several cities I danced in back in the 60's and 70's. I want to go to the burlesque theater locations to see if they are still standing, and if not, what is in their place. I also want to interview people who remember the theater there and possible former customers.
This documentary will be very interesting as it brings to life this lost era.
But equally important and a big theme I want to weave into this film will be the human element of strippers. I want to show where strippers are human too. So many in our society think of us as saturations of sex. Dancing is just a job to strippers. Like any other job. That I know and have known - nothing more.
People said that women in the strip clubs were exploited. I never felt exploited. I never felt used. I always felt that I was using and exploiting the men for what I could get out of them. With this theme of the human element, I want to interview current day strippers and other old strippers from my time, to show the difference in the cultures, their viewpoints of the business and relate their feelings about the job.
My son, award winning independent filmmaker Jack Truman, is also the director of the film. He was raised as a child in that environment starting when he was 6 years old. So a big part of the film will be from a viewpoint angle of Jack's as a filmmaker in a Michael Moore style of filmmaking.
There will be interviews with my children as to their views on this type of life, and their feelings of being raised this way.
This film will be shot in a very personal way with the road trip, interviews with family, friends, strippers, celebrities who worked and grew up in that era, and people who remember that time. Everything combined will make for a great story of a unique documentary that only I can make.
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