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HANDS ON FASSBINDER – #6 MY FASSBINDER – Fassbinder and international cinema

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Final event on November 17 and 18
in Berlin

The series of events taking place in 2012 under the umbrella title of HANDS ON FASSBINDER is a collective project mounted by the German film journal REVOLVER, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), the Berlin cinema Zeughauskino, the RWFF and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. The project has been made possible by a grant from the German Capital Cultural Fund.

MY FASSBINDER is dedicated to the theme of “German – European – international” and explores Fassbinder’s influence on film-making in a wide range of countries and cultures. His films are venerated, quoted and drawn on for inspiration. But what is it that lends his oeuvre its power? What is the image communicated by his work? Are his films better understood abroad? To conclude this series, international film-makers speak about their relationship to Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

An overview of the coming weekend program:

Saturday, November 17 at the .CHB

7 p.m. / DISCUSSION
Agustin Mendilaharzu And Mariano Llinás in conversation with Franz Müller and Saskia Walker (in English /with film excerpts from 2008’s HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS)
The film by Mariano Llinás tells of X, Z and H, figures in the Argentinian landscape: stories of nameless crimes, of the search for traces in the lives of missing predecessors, of wagers made in high spirits.

9 p.m. / STAGED READING
Fassbinder’s friends and comrades … or something like that
A visualization of the collapse of the Fassbinder commune between Lou Castel, Grete and a parallel event. Waiting for Fassbinder: The members of the antitheater commune are stuck in Feldkirchen and attempt to resist the course of history. Fassbinder’s alter ego in BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE, Lou Castel, appears to them as an icon of left-wing auteur cinema and a comforter of the lost souls of an authoritarian spirit. And Grete serves us all cuba libres. The staged reading is the prelude to the party marking the end of HANDS ON FASSBINDER.

From 10 p.m. / PARTY
At the DJ desk: members of the REVOLVER editorial board.

Sunday, November 18 at the .CHB

3 p.m. / DISCUSSION
Lodge Kerrigan in conversation with Hannes Brühwiler and Franz Müller (in English)
Discussion focusing on Kerrigan’s work in American independent cinema and for television as well as the long shadow cast by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

 

5 p.m. / DISCUSSION
João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata in conversation with Toby Ashraf (in English)
Fetish and desire, transidentities and the mysterious ambiguities of non-normative sexualities are take center-stage in the poetic cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues. The discussion with the two directors will focus on their relationship to Fassbinder, people on the periphery of hetero-normative society and collaborating on film projects

7 p.m. / LIVE AUDIO-COMMENTARY ON FEAR EATS THE SOUL
Ending with an experiment: This weekend’s guests and members of REVOLVER view the film together and comment on it live.

#6 MY FASSBINDER film program / Zeughauskino

November 13, 2012 | 8 p.m.
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (FRG 1972, 124′, 35 mm) by RWF
November 14, 2012 | 8 p.m.
DESPAIR (FRG/F 1978, 119′, 35 mm) by RWF
November 15, 2012 | 8 p.m.
LILI MARLEEN (FRG 1980, 120′, 35 mm) by RWF
November 16, 2012 | 7 p.m
FEAR EATS THE SOUL (FRG 1974, 93′, 35 mm) by RWF
November 16, 2012 | 9 p.m.
QUERELLE (FRG/F 1982, 106′, 35 mm) by RWF
November 18, 2012 | 9 p.m. / .CHB
FEAR EATS THE SOUL (FRG 1974, 93′, 35 mm) by RWF

Further information 1 on HANDS ON FASSBINDER by REVOLVER.
Further information 2 on the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB).
Further information 3 on the film program in the Zeughauskino Berlin.
Further information 4 on the parallel event.
Entire program

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