Methode Rainer Werner Fassbinder

What Godard and Truffaut are to France, Visconti and Rossellini to Italy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder is to New German Cinema. With irrepressible creative power and an unerring view of contemporary society, he created a colossal oeuvre in his short lifetime. Fassbinder s films are moving and touching precisely because they dare to be disturbing and to put their finger on the wound. The catalogue captures their complexity and scope to the present day. It closely links the multi-talented artist s life with his work. It shows the immense range of a creative force that always knows how to express itself and resonate in theater as well as in film, in narrative as well as in experimental cinema, with its very own aesthetics. And in doing so, he also always tells of German history from its catastrophe to our present day.