WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Barcode: 58957653
Call Number: D-58957653
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 85 min.
Date: c1971
System Requirements: Internet Connection
Language: Serbo-Croatian
Creator: Directed by Dusan Makavejev
Description: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression. Also known as W.R. The Mysteries of the Organism in English subtitled version. Was banned in Yugoslavia shortly after it was made.
Collection: Language Resource Center