MF: Fassbinder felt that film had lost a great deal of its original content in the process of commercialization. He often deliberately overused clichés in an attempt to show the emptiness of the Hollywood film. Do you think that Fassbinder was correct?
Steve Erickson: That may be Fassbinder’s version of why he used the clichés, but I think the real reason is he loved them. I think he loved all that classic iconography of “empty” glamour and artificiality, and some part of him yearned to make Now, Voyager. A gay German Now, Voyager, maybe, but still.
This interview with Steve Erickson is rad. Still reading my way through Our Ecstatic Days -not sure, if it's completely the right place to start (him) - but I can already feel he will become a major thing for me. I like the way his pages look.
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