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Hands on Fassbinder
May 11–November 17, 2012 at
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
, Berlin
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most internationally significant German directors. In the 30th year after his death, REVOLVER film magazine, in collaboration with the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), will dedicate a large series of events in Berlin to his legacy. The focus of Hands on Fassbinder is not on the retrospective. Rather, the person and his work will be considered as a point of departure for political and cultural visions. The series begins on 11 May and ends on 17 November 2012. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's extensive body of work, comprising over 40 feature films, 2 TV series, numerous plays (as playwright and director), radio plays and screenplays, was created in a short time span of less than two decades: from 1966 to 1982. This work is to be reconsidered in the context of the present. Beyond that, the veil which the myth of Fassbinder has placed over the diversity of his work is to be peeled back to allow new access points. Using multi-perspective analysis and discussion of Fassbinder's cosmos, its mechanisms and its impact, new approaches and ideas will be developed which will encourage artists of today to deal with both history and the present in an open and engaged manner and will awaken or strengthen comparable expectations in the public.
Hands on Fassbinder is not an attempt at a complete retrospective. Much more, between May and November 2012, nearly 50 guests from Germany and abroad will discuss six thematic points spanning politics, national history, society, money, sexuality and their realization in film. Filmmakers, writers, film theorists, journalists, companions of Fassbinder, theater professionals and musicians have been invited to participate. In an open, "porous" approach, thematic samples will be drawn from the entire body of work, so as to examine them for their inspirational potential. A wide-ranging film program in the Zeughauskino will accompany these discussions.
Hands on Fassbinder is organized by REVOLVER Zeitschrift für Film in collaboration with the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, as well as with the Zeughauskino. The series is kindly supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Culture Fund), as well as the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).
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