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'''Artist:''' Dusan Makavejev | '''Artist:''' Dusan Makavejev (b. 1932) | ||
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Yugoslav Ministry of Culture | '''Confronting Bodies:''' Yugoslav Ministry of Culture | ||
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'''Location:''' Yugoslavia | '''Location:''' Yugoslavia | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' The W.R. in ''W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism'' stands both for World Revolution and for Wilhelm Reich, | '''Description of Artwork:''' The W.R. in ''W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism'' stands both for World Revolution and for Wilhelm Reich, whom the film starts with a documentary about. Reich was a Marxist who believed in free love. The use of this footage is to make statements on social and sexual liberation, totalitarianism, and free love in a communist atmosphere. Later in the film one of the characters declares, "Communism without free love is a wake in a graveyard." <P> | ||
It also contains scenes of nudity and explicate sexuality weaved in with documentary footage of communism. As a whole, ''W.R.'' is a critique of communist sexual repression. It is not a sex film, but rather a film about sex. <P> | It also contains scenes of nudity and explicate sexuality weaved in with documentary footage of communism. As a whole, ''W.R.'' is a critique of communist sexual repression. It is not a sex film, but rather a film about sex. <P> | ||
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