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- Vortrag von Thomas Elsaesser
Synopsis
- HANDS ON FASSBINDER #2 IMAGES OF HISTORY
Thomas Elsaesser: Time Warps and Time Exposures: 1979, Fassbinder and THE THIRD GENERATION
Anniversaries and commemorations have become our culture’s most dominant form of historical recall and return. In my talk I shall take a particular year – this time neither 1968 nor 1982, but 1979, in order to try and reconstruct through its heterogeneous elements a “topography of historical simultaneity”. Skimming both the surface of coincidence and digging into the deeper layers of long-term processes, I want to use Fassbinder’s THIRD GENERATION as a probe to explore what unexpected connections become visible in retrospect: I shall claim that this parallels the film’s own strategy of layering its plot in order to produce striking contiguities of meaning.
Thomas Elsaesser, born 1943 in Berlin, film historian and professor for Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Author of numerous books, including the refernece study on Fassbinder Fassbinder’s Germany. History, Identity, Subject (1996, auf Deutsch „Rainer Werner Fassbinder“ 2001/2012)
HANDS ON FASSBINDER.
Diskussionen. Projektionen. Assoziationen.
11.05. – 18.11.2012. Berlin.
www.handsonfassbinder.de
Crew
- Director of photography: Thomas Elsaesser
- Curator: Handson Fassbinder
