Fassbinder Variations

The filmmaker’s experiments in the codes of genre cinema – film crime, melodrama, science fiction – are considered as so many ways out of a German cinema impossible, stretched between a national cultural industry exit from the Third Reich radically discredited and the empire exercised by the United States on the film market and the factory of imaginations. Since it is Hollywood was born from Fassbinder's desire for cinema in West Germany. the post-war period, what to do, if not try to indigenousize the images, risk German gangster films, immigrant and underclass melodramas Munich? And in what images can we still manage to machine our desire in the new sensitive situation imposed by the German Autumn and the influence of the media communication? For those who do not have their own means of expression but only foreign languages ​​that are both essential and inappropriate, the quote turns out to be the gesture par excellence of a minor cinema, dedicated to working in borrowed images, and impossibly acclimatizing them ways of living that they prescribe to the bodies that are supposed to embody them.