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Monday Night – 03.13.06 – W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

Contents:

1. About Monday Night
2. About W.R. Mysteries of the Organism
3. Articles about W.R. in the Guardian Online
4. Links to the past two screenings

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1. About Monday Night

What: Screening / discussion
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th floor (directions below)
When: Monday Night 03.13.2006 @ 7:30 Pm
Who: Open and Free To All

For the past two weeks we have been screening films by the Dziga Vertov Group: Vladimir et Rosa and Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere). In a conversation following one of the screenings, someone mentioned W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dusan Makavejev.. So we are screening it on Monday.

Hope you can make it.

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2. About W.R. Mysteries of the Organism
Directed by Dusan Makavejev, 1971

Short Description:

The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit film is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached social improvement through sexual enlightenment. Reich is a maverick intellectual, sexual pioneer, and theorist of "Orgone energy," but also of "world revolution." By juxtaposing hippie America and Cold War Yugoslavia, Dusan Makavejev stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism, sexual permissiveness and socialism.

For Raymond Durgnat WR is an adventure playground that the film's spectators enter and interact with. It's intellectual cinema, and a film that prophesied the horror of the conflict in what is now the former Yugoslavia.

From http://www.ucpress.edu/books/bfi/pages/PROD0040.html

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