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 is hilarious.
Asked by an audience member at the Brooklyn Academy of Music who had written the background song, Karpo Godina confessed that he knew someone would ask, and that in anticipation of this he had been racking his brains all day trying to remember, to no avail. But now a Google search reveals the answer. The song was written by Rory Gallagher for a group called he was then in called Taste, and the name of the tune is On the Boards from an album of the same name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSFb69lIDI

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[dfsanche]

Does anyone know the name of thesong?

[koxlc]

@dfsanche info below the clip knows!

Taste / On the boards v=_s99LA9Kqts

[sesobebo]

I don't think that's a river.

[koxlc]

@sesobebo no, its a sea. shots were taken on the seasalt field.

[DannyWGiles]

I can't get enough of this film. Honestly I think this just became my number one favorite.

[jackamo23]

I have not come across the work of Karpo Godina before so it was a real pleasure to watch. Its a strangely compelling piece of film, so well composed and the soundtrack really complimented it, creating an almost hypnotic quality....Its interesting how the act of taking LSD is still inherently political on some levels given the fact manufacturing, selling and posession still carries the maximum sentence under any western drug law. In this sense Karpo's short film seems more relevant than ever.

[amirhamzaalfaruqi]

It's amazing how subtle gestures can make governments shake in their boots. I have really come to appreciate his work, his daring, and his imagination. Thanks for sharing this.

[jackamo23]

I have not come across the work of Karpo Godina before so it was a real pleasure to watch. Its a strangely compelling piece of film, so well composed and the soundtrack really complimented it, creating an almost hypnotic quality....Its interesting how the act of taking LSD is still inherently political on some levels given the fact manufacturing, selling and posession still carries the maximum sentence under any western drug law. In this sense Karpo's short film seems more relevant than ever.