January 04, 2005
ORGONES IN THE HOSPITAL
Saturday 29 January 2005
doors 7.30, entry £7/£5
kinoKULTURE in conjunction with Tenniel and Peter presents:
WR: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie by Dusan Makavejev
NEW!! NEW!!!
Now with an extempore micro-essai by David Ellis.
Sweet Movie (1974)
Directed by
Dusan Makavejev
Writing credits
Dusan Makavejev
Plot Summary for
Sweet Movie (1974)
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest escapes from a sexless
marriage to an oil tycoon, has a wild affair with a famous rock star and
settles in a radical commune. Meanwhile, a boat travels the canals of
Amsterdam with a cargo of sugar, a demented crew, a revolutionary zealot
captain and her lover, a refugee from the Battleship Potemkin.
Makavejev's bizarre and pointedly satirical vision is totally
uncompromising and filled with shocking images.
Summary written by Marty Cassady
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends
into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with
candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and
revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose
honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches
her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching
rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune
complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet
nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by
reminders that "it's just a movie."
Summary written by j.hailey
W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971)
Directed by
Dusan Makavejev
Writing credits
Dusan Makavejev
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.
Summary written by Malcolm Humes
Half-documentary about Wilhelm Reich, scientist who tried to bring
together teachings of Freud and Marx and was persecuted by Hitler,
Stalin and McCarthy. The movie deals with the scientist and with the
people who try to put his teachings into practice.
Summary written by Dragan Antulov
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