Plastični Isus / Plastic Jesus

Anarchic collage on Titoism and Stalinism, totalitarism and undeground arts, Fascism and Socialism. A minor narrative line tells about a bearded anarchist filmmaker whose Croatian- American girlfriend keeps on singing country songs – one of them entitled „Plastic Jesus“. When she leaves him, he finds another woman and gets into trouble with the police. Influenced by the Yigoslav 'Black Wave' of the late 6o's, especially by Dušan Makavejev's „W.R. - Mysteries of the organism“, Stojanovićs film marks a free spirit, connected with
sarcastic criticism on the socialist leaders of it's time which is specially dome by a subversive use of certain archive material. „Plastic Jesus“ was immediately banned after its production; the director was put into jail for three years. After banned for almost 20 years, the film won a FIPRESCI award at the 1991 Montreal Film festival.

Source: Zagreb Film festival 2006, festival catalogue