Matthias Müller Movies

“A study of light.” (Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller)

This is somebody, nobody, anyone. This is us in the course of time. Persistently, in vain. The self is the need for permanent self-assertion.

“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with...

Muller/Girardet short

A woman, a man, guests at an evening party. Settings, which are gradually abandoned; the remains of an event, gazes that have lost their object.

Promises is based on a selection of sixteen prints from a collection of vintage wedding photographs. The video pulses violently from one bouquet of...

In Phantom, each face, each body appears, like cinema itself, from beneath a curtain that flutters and flickers to reveal haunted silhouettes that...

About blind people in Hollywood films

Time and again, the feature film places animal actors at the side of its human protagonists – sometimes as loyal companions, sometimes as...

The television images of the collapse of the World Trade Center were preceded by manifold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon,...

Matthias Müller’s films are always about both the eternal and the volatile qualities of cinema. They exaggerate the unreality and clinical...

The body as a wound that never heals.

A short feature about an optical experiment.

Album also represents a further step on a path Müller set off on several years ago: away from festivals and toward the art market. Album does...

AUS DER FERNE – THE MEMO BOOK (1989) is a reminiscence of a friend who had died of AIDS. His own mourning finds expression in the blending of...