Matthias Müller Movies

Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

When a convicted felon fails to return from his prison leave and a young woman is found murdered, forensic psychiatrist Roman Mettler finds himself...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by...

Nostalgic excerpts of fiction, fairytales and vintage science fiction from a child’s room to way out into the galaxy.

There's a reason why many consider Iggy Pop the godfather of punk - every single punk band of the past and present has either knowingly or...

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

For a young boy, ordinary facts and things of daily life seem to have great importance.

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...

The film comprises edited excerpts from 40 Hitchcock films in six chapters, each focusing on a different motif that reveals some of Hitchcock’s...

As a couple awakens and rituals of breakfast unfold, war news headlines and radio radio broadcasts emerge in layers.

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.

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...

The body as a wound that never heals.

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,...

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

2001 film by Muller