W.R.- MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM    1971 (W.R. - Misterije organizma) Directed by Dušan Makavejev 85 mintues in Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles

What does the energy harnessed through sexual orgasms have to do with the state of Communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev had the answers (or the right questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of the controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich (a student of Freud) and then explodes into a free-form narrative concerning a beautiful young Slavic girl's sexual liberation.

Banned upon its release in the director's homeland, this art-house smash hit is both whimsical and bold in its fusing of politics and volatile sexuality. After finishing this film, the director was forced to leave his country, but continued making mind-blowing films in exile for many years. But of all the films he managed to make, this is generally considered his masterpiece. Makavejev's recent death has gone almost unnoticed, which is a crime... so let's go back to his wild, mind-blowing, defining work. It's a visionary movie of eerily appropriate juxtapositions... a mix of fact and fiction, a bizarre biography of sexologist Wilhelm Reich (who believed that sexual repression leads to fascism), fused with old archival footage, and an analysis of Stalinist propaganda films framed as displaced pornography. A stunning, bizarre and unique gem from one of cinema's greatest visionaries.