The Fassbinder Diaries

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I would like to thank Seven Corners for publishing the following pieces (some in a highly different earlier versions): “Extraction #1,” “The Fassbinder Diaries: Day 27,” “The Fassbinder Diaries: Day 733,” “Imperial Tangos #1,” “Imperial Tangos #2,” and Imperial Tangos #3.”

I would also like to thank Action Yes for publishing an early version of “Exhibit B:” and Everyday Genius for publishing “Pig Beach.”

The first scenes are silent. The footage is grainy, as if the world being shown has gone through a storm of broken glass shards. As if the air has been delicately mangled. There are figures on the ground, squirming, and it is impossible to tell if they are outside or inside. They could be in an abandoned factory or in a very spacious bedroom or in the middle of a meadow in the middle of the night. We are watching them in the dark. I mean we’re in the dark ourselves. Dust floats in the light from the projector. It is a warm dark. Outside, there is a cold dark.

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