“Fassbinder – NOW. Film and Video Art” begins in Frankfurt
From October 30, 2013 to June 1, 2014 in the Deutsches Filmmuseum
Long in the planning, the special exhibition by the Deutsches Filminstitute (DIF) and the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation (RWFF) is finally being opened. All has been readied. The title says it all, and yet leaves space for improvisation.
The exhibition catalog is being published in both German and English. It includes an introduction by Anna Fricke, essays by exhibition initiators Juliane Maria Lorenz, Claudia Dillmann and Hans-Peter Reichmann, and contributions by Ursula Frohne, Brigitte Peucker, Cristina Nord, Thomas Elsaesser, Nisaar Ulama, Tom Geens, Ralf Michael Fischer, Bridget Crone, Maryam Jafri, Svetlana Svyatskaya, Jesper Just, Lilian Haberer and Ming Wong.
The search will always remain for a new and at the same time very different Fassbinder type. Such is the case when someone establishes elemental benchmarks in an art form, in the process of which his irrepressible creativity “costs” him many years of life. The price is high but so too are the rewards.
Participating artists:
Tom Geens (b. 1970, Belgium)
Runa Islam (b. 1970, Bangladesh)
Maryam Jafri (b. 1972, Pakistan)
Jesper Just (b. 1974, Denmark)
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij (b. 1970 Netherlands, d. 2006, Ghana / b. 1969 Netherlands)
Ming Wong (b. 1971, Singapore)
For the Deutsches Filminstitut/Deutsches Filmmuseum:
Exhibition curator and catalog concept: Anna Fricke
Exhibition co-conceived by: Hans-Peter Reichmann, Dr. Henning Engelke
Curatorial assistance: Svetlana Svyatskaya
For the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation:
Dr. Daniel Kletke (manuscript archive), Bastian Follmann (press archive) and Livia Anita Fiorio (assistence and coordination)
Information on all performative and appellative aspects of the exhibition can be found via the following links:
Deutsches Filmmuseum press release
DIF interview with Juliane Lorenz
Website of the DFM/DIF
Deutsches Filmmuseum film program in October
Frankfurter Rundschau,
online 18.10.2013 Das Archiv spricht (The Archive Speaks) by Franziska Schubert
The exhibition is sponsored by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, Stadt Frankfurt am Main, the Hessische Kulturstiftung and the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. It is a partner of the B3 Moving Image Biennale.
Further information
Deutsches Filmmuseum
Schaumainkai 41
60596 Frankfurt am Main
presse@deutsches-filminstitut.de
Tel.: +49 (0)69 961 220 220
Fax: +49 (0)69 961 220 999
+++ Follow us on TWITTER+++
@rwffoundation