New special exhibition in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt
DIF and RWFF present “Fassbinder – NOW. Film and Video Art”
“I’m building a house with my films. Some are the cellar, others are the walls, and others are the window.” From October 30, Fassbinder will once again have a fixed address in Frankfurt. At least for nine months … During the 1974/75 theater season Fassbinder was the artistic director of the TAT (Theater am Turm) in the city on the River Main. Here, where his theater work once proved so controversial and where the films MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN, SHADOW OF ANGELS (directed by Daniel Schmid) and IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS were made, a special exhibition titled “Fassbinder – NOW. Film and Video Art” is now being opened.
Since the extensive remodeling program carried out in 2010/11, the German Film Museum’s permanent exhibition area has been completely refurbished and reconceptualized. Some time ago the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation agreed to contribute a number of unique exhibits to the exhibition, which are now on loan to the museum. For example, the art of montage and sound mixing is represented by so-called shoelace tapes: original materials with which Juliane Lorenz worked during the making of THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN and BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ.
Starting in autumn, this special exhibition is long overdue, given the ideal conditions offered by the German Film Museum in Frankfurt. The collaborative project between the Deutsches Filminstitut e.V. (DIF) led by director Claudia Dillmann and the RWFF, represented by its president Juliane Lorenz, is being funded by, among others, the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain. It is also part of the B3 Moving Image Biennial.
Linking the themes of Fassbinder’s films with the perspectives and subjects of contemporary video artists from all over the world represents a genuinely new type of constellation and lends this show its unique selling point. Over the coming months we will be reporting on the approaches characterizing the works of the participating artists Tom Geens, Runa Islam, Maryam Jafri, Jesper Just, Jeroen de Rijke (†) / Willem de Rooij and Ming Wong.
The show’s curators, Hans-Peter Reichmann (DIF) and Dr. Daniel Kletke (RWFF), have sifted through the rich fund of available archival material, focusing particularly on the archive of written works in Berlin. The project has been preceded by a long period of planning and detailed preparatory work. Visitors will be able to view numerous documents from the RWFF archives that will be on public display for the first time in contemporary contexts. The exhibition catalog is being published in both German and English editions. The film museum’s small yet comfortable cinema (131 seats) will be screening both RWF retrospectives as well as works influenced by Fassbinder’s oeuvre, including films by François Ozon, Pedro Almodóvar, Oskar Roehler, Lars von Trier und Todd Haynes.
Fassbinder – NOW
Film and Video Art
Oktober 30, 2013 to June 1, 2014
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