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Cine Interzone presents: W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
Dušan Makavejev | 1971 | Yugoslavia, West Germany | 85' | EN subs

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 sexologist Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative following a young Slavic woman'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. It's a visionary movie of eerily appropriate juxtapositions... a mix of fact and fiction, a bizarre biography of  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.