Karpo Godina : Pupilias Ferkeverk Brain Au Gratain

The Gratinated Brains of Pupilia Ferkeverk (1970), featuring the Slovenian poets who constituted a collective called Pupilia Ferkeverk. The movie opens with a shot of a woman on a swing, shot at different times of day and night, and in different weather. When we think, after a minute or two, that we are going to see nothing else, other characters suddenly interject themselves, standing naked or nearly naked in the water, miming different stages of life and politics, using symbolism so abstract as to be meaningless were it not for the captions that are in Slovene and are not translated into English. The characters all conclude that the universal solution is to take LSD. The depiction of drug use, of course, got the movie banned. Too bad, because the movies real subversion is not a mention of a drug, but the depiction of civilization reduced to a cartoon level of unoriginal people standing around in the water mimicking one another and following the pointless commands of advertisers and politicians. The imagery