Fassbinder Lives!
Rediscovering the Cinema of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
One-Day International Conference
Saturday 30 January 1999, from 10.15am - 6pm at the National Film
Theatre, South Bank, London SE1
To coincide with the NFT's major retrospective, this one-day
conference, organised by the NFT and the Goethe-Institut London, aims
at a radical reassessment of Fassbinder's cinema. Why do Fassbinder's
films still fascinate and exasperate us today? What lasting mark has
he left on European film culture and who are his heirs? By presenting
Fassbinder's work in its entirety, how does the NFT's retrospective
affect our understanding of his achievement?
Critics from Britain, Germany and the US will examine Fassbinder's
controversial legacy from a 90s viewpoint, linking it to current
debates about genre, sexual politics and the re-writing of German
history. One of Fassbinder's most distinguished long-term
collaborators, Peter Maerthesheimer (producer of Berlin
Alexanderplatz), will be present to explore Fassbinder's
achievements in the field of television, and Fassbinder will speak
for himself in a revealing but rarely-screened interview of 1977.
Leading film historian Thomas Elsaesser, author of the most important
new study of Fassbinder (Fassbinder's Germany - History Identity
Subject, Amsterdam University Press, 1996), will launch the debate.
Speakers will also include Tim Bergfelder, Laura Mulvey and Alice
Kuzniar.
Tickets: stlg20 (NFT members + concessions), stlg30 (non-members). For the
full conference programme please contact the Goethe-Institut on
0171-411 3447 or the NFT on 0171- 815 1439. To book, please ring the
NFT Box Office on 0171-928 3232.
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Dr Duncan Large
Department of German
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
GB-Swansea SA2 8PP
Tel: (+44) (0)1792 205678, #4729
Home Tel/Fax: (+44) (0)1792 204167
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/large.htm
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