# Rainer Werner Fassbinder **Domain:** Cinema / Television / Modernism **Doc Type:** Director Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[World on a Wire (1973)]], [[Simulacron-3]], [[Michael Ballhaus]], [[Postmodern Hinge]] --- ## Definition Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a German filmmaker whose two-part television film _World on a Wire_ adapted Daniel F. Galouye's _Simulacron-3_. ## Corpus Context His reflective surfaces, institutional interiors and recursive performances made simulated ontology a media-form problem decades before mainstream virtual-reality cinema. ## Relationships [[World on a Wire (1973)]], [[Simulacron-3]], [[Michael Ballhaus]], [[Postmodern Hinge]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]