Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev is a highly unconventional movie maker, ready to destroy any cultural idols he is encountering on his way, be them sexual taboos and theories about sexual liberation altogether, political dogmas from the East and from the West, well established principles of the cinema art, everything. Think at his much younger compatriot Kusturica, think at Godard, think at Oshima. Actually Makavejev is almost the same age with Godard and Oshima, the same generation, the same nihilistic approach. Think also at Fellini in his later movies: the same baroque scope, the same baroque craziness. But think firstly at Godard.

No wonder Amos Vogel has chosen an image from a Makavejev's movie to illustrate his monumental Cinema as a Subversive Art. I will give you here a short excerpt from exactly that movie, W.R.: Misterije Organizma, and I promise the whole movie for my next post.

W.R. - Misterije organizma: Scene from the movie
(video by smitrof)

• W.R.: Misterjie Organizma (1971)
  

(Jack Goelman)