Fassbinder’s early shorts are fascinating to see how his personal stamp makes its way into approproated styles. “The City Tramp” is a very “student-y” short about a down and out man whose suicide attempts are interrupted. It has the light feel of the Czech New Wave but just a hair grungier and more desperate. “A Little Chaos” is brilliant — one of those films you watch in complete rapture because you have no idea what is coming next. A group of youngsters (lead by young R.W. replete with John Lennon-style hair) can’t get anywhere in life selling magazine subscriptions, so they turn to a life of crime. . .only a life of meta-crime. The look and character dynamic is stolen wholesale from Godard, but the dialogue and action is, again, dirty and bordering-on-too-violent. Imagine if the three from Bande a Part not only ran through the Louvre but also stole some paintings. A facinating short.