March 21 until May 16
Ming Wong
«Eat Fear»
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Ming Wong on Fassbinder
I first came across Fassbinder’s films when I was a young art student in London, at the cinema at the ICA. This was in the late 1990s. Without knowing much about Fassbinder beforehand, I entered, fully unprepared, the world of «Petra von Kant.» For the next one and a half hours, I didn’t blink. Lost in a world where only histrionic women existed, I was touched profoundly forever. I didn’t understand the German language at the time, but I understood her exactly. I was Petra von Kant. Later in the same season, I watched «Angst essen Seele auf» (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1973). Emmi and Ali stole my heart. I shared their sense of injustice and I cried for them. …>>