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Dušan Makavejev on WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM

WR: Mysteries of the Organism • 29m

In October 2006, film scholar Peter Cowie sat with Dušan Makavejev to talk about the people and ideas that populate WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM. In this interview, the director also discusses the effect the film had on his life and career, and his many years in exile from his native Yugoslavia.

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    In 1992, the UK’s Channel 4 approached Dušan Makavejev about reediting WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, as, due to an antipornography crusade, the channel could not air it. Rather than refusing or cutting, the director gleefully intervened in his own film, using computer graphics to challenge notio...

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