Thirty years after Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final movie, *Querelle* (1982), Roger Fritz is exhibiting the production photographs at White Columns. The exhibition marks the first time the 119 images have been shown in New York, though they were originally published to coincide with the film’s release as *Querelle—The Film Book* (Schirmer/Mosel-Grove). These are not film stills but carefully orchestrated re-enactments taken after each filmed take — attempts to compress the emotional and visual tone of a scene into a single frame. Together they form a complete narrative of Fassbinder’s lurid, surreal adaptation of Jean Genet’s 1947 novel. We met in a small park in Chelsea to talk through the exhibition and Roger’s time with Fassbinder.
Year: 2012
Clients: Interview Magazine
Category: Interview