https://vo.rs/tags/yugoslav-cinema/Latest from the Yugoslav Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism-the-cult-film-that-argued-with-politics/<p>Some films are provocations you can summarise; <em>WR: Mysteries of the Organism</em> (1971) is a provocation you can only gesture at. Dušan Makavejev&rsquo;s Yugoslav landmark is a collage that welds a straight-faced documentary about the disgraced psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to a fictional sex comedy set in socialist Belgrade, then splices in Warhol Factory drag stars, a Fugs poet marching through New York with a toy rifle, archival Stalinist kitsch and a plaster cast of an erect penis. It should be incoherent. Instead it is one of the sharpest political films of its decade, a genuine argument conducted in the grammar of montage, and it got Makavejev effectively exiled from his own country for the trouble. More than fifty years on it remains a masterclass in how to think on film.</p>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000