[csaa-forum] SSSN Seminar - Tuesday 17th April - Zach Karpinellison: "Fassbinder: As He Appears To Us"

Fri Apr 13 12:45:52 ACST 2018

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Fassbinder: As He Appears To Us

Tuesday 17th April, 5pm - 7.30pm
Room 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW Kensington Campus

In this paper I argue that Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s appearances in his own films are an important and meaningful part of his filmmaking practice. Fassbinder’s appearances can be organised into three consecutive stages, which I have termed insertion, assertion, and direction. Each of these stages will be explored in this paper to show how they allow Fassbinder to enact a form of creative control. In this way, Fassbinder extends the figure of director by incorporating into the position, the role of author and performer. In this extended capacity Fassbinder exerts a greater control over the moral and political reception of his work. Having presented this analytical framework for understanding his appearances, I then examine his unique involvement in his own films through the lens of critical work and theory about authorship, auteurs and performance. I argue that Fassbinder’s appearances have important implications for the study of authorship and demand a re-examination of the fragile distinctions drawn between the terms director, performer and author. Further, a consideration of Fassbinder’s specific cultural value in the context of the New German Cinema opens other lines of inquiry about his value.

Biography:
Zach Karpinellison is completing a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Film Studies at UNSW and working as a projectionist at Golden Age Cinema & Bar. He is the 2017 recipient of the Stephanie and James Donald Prize for Best Performance in Film Studies and the Marie Robertson Prize for the Best Performance in Media, Culture and Technology. In 2016 he was a guest speaker at the Sydney Film Festival on the ‘Refugees on Film – Cinema without Borders’ panel, and is a current member of the festival’s Film Advisory Panel. He has also worked on the 2017 Persian Film Festival supervising marketing and social media. e: zach.karpinellison at gmail.com

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