Matthias Müller Movies

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

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

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

Muller/Girardet short

“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...

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

Composed of densely atmospheric and highly stylized recycled commercial footage of young, picture perfect models pleasurably applying personal...

About blind people in Hollywood films

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

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...

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

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...

"With their montage of found footage of audiences, Müller and Girardet shape a captivating dramatic arc. It contains condensed suspense with...

A short feature about an optical experiment.

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