Fassbinder on Film (Fantasy Anarchy / Film Liberates the Mind)

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Features: New German Cinema maestro Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) created across film, television, and theater, with exceptional creativity in filmmaking. From 1965 until his death in 1982, Fassbinder completed 43 works, surpassing his peers with a relentless stream of masterpieces that won numerous awards at international film festivals. Although his works subverted the fundamental sequence of cinematic language, they retained a deep allure for audiences through the form of melodrama and drew intense attention from critics. On the other hand, Fassbinder was also a lonely young man: moody, impatient, vengeful, and chaotic, often behaving irrationally. "Only the anger and ruthless ecstasy within the corrupted nervous system of an artist can be the true source of creative inspiration. The artist must become inhuman and superhuman; he must maintain a strange and detached relationship with all of humanity." "I want to use my films to build a house. Some will serve as cellars, others as walls, and the rest as windows." The essays collected in Fassbinder on Film are the corridor leading to this house and further into its interior. This book includes two highly personal anthologies by Fassbinder: Fantasy Anarchy, primarily composed of interviews, and Film Liberate the Mind, consisting mainly of essays and notes. When the lights in the cinema dim, the dream begins—and this self-proclaimed romantic anarchist constantly provokes the audience, liberating their minds through film.