by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
Politics within the community of small and independent German filmmakers is the subject of this wry spoof. It chronicles the meetings of an organization which resembles in every way the Kuratorium for Young German Cinema, or the German government board which hands out grants to budding filmmakers. It also chronicles actual filmmaking by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Hark Bohm, as well as the inventive ways in which this film's director makes use of 8 mm film and his filming crew. This little film was a festival favorite among European filmmaking cognoscenti.
