Matthias Müller Movies

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

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,...

The film creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets. Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy. It...

Combining close-ups of redundant technology gleaned from 60s US sci-fi television series with a female voice of a 40s Hollywood melodrama, Manual...

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

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

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

About blind people in Hollywood films

A young boy peers through a wall in dreamlike sequences; silhouette dancers, industrial motifs and doubled visuals form a narrative of...

The body as a wound that never heals.

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...

2002 short by Muller

This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of...

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

2004 short by Muller

An early Super 8 collage experiment by Müller using found film reels and home‑movie fragments.