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Matthias Müller

Matthias MÜLLER (1961, Germany) is an experimental filmmaker. He studied at the University of Bielefeld and the Braunschweig School of Art. Müller lives in Bielefeld and Cologne and has been working in film, video and photography since 1980, often in collaboration with Christoph Girardet. Müller has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions at institutions such as Tate Modern, Hayward Gallery, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Hangar Bicocca and Museo Tamayo.

Filmografie

(selection, all short) Aus der Ferne – The Memo Book (1989), Home Stories (1990), STERNENSCHAUER – Scattering Stars (1994), Sleepy Haven (1993), Alpsee (1994), PENSÃO GLOBO (1997), Vacancy (1998), Phoenix Tapes (1999, co-dir), Phantom (2001), Nebel/Fog (2000), Manual (2002, co-dir), Beacon (2002, co-dir), Play (2003, co-dir), Album (2004, instal), Mirror (2004, co-dir), Ray (2004, co-dir), Catch (2005, co-dir), Ground (2005, co-dir), Hide (2006, co-dir), Kristall (2006, co-dir), Maybe Siam (2009, co-dir), Contre-jour (2009, co-dir), Meteor (2011, co-dir), Cut (2013, co-dir), personne (2016, co-dir), Screen (2018, co-dir)

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Matthias Müller at IFFR

  • Sleepy haven

    Homo-romantic seaman’s film. An ode to Jean Genet.

  • Phoenix Tapes

    Brilliant reordering of fragments from Alfred Hitchcock’s opulent oeuvre alienates and also does justice to the master.

  • Vacancy

    Personal and layered evocation of the ‘dream city’ Brasilia, made by one of the masters of the short film Matthias Müller.

  • Breeze

    1-Minute avant-garde poem about what film is (too).

  • Nebel

    Enchanting, hypnotic film about the seasons, mist, light, nostalgia, poetry, based on a poem by Ernst Jandl.

  • Sleepy Haven

    About the sensuality of the naked torso of a sailor. Masterful found-footage adaptation.

  • Beacon

    A timeless and imaginary portrait of the coast, with waves of melancholy and nostalgia.

  • Manual

    Combining closeups of redundant technology gleaned from 1960s US scifi television series with a female voice of a 1950s Hollywood melodrama, Manual makes absolute detachment clash with magnified emotion. With its record of the minutiae of endless buttons, switches and control panels and its choreography of a machinelike body language, Manual reduces the notion of […]

  • Screen

    A mesmerising accumulation of floating imagery reverses the relationship between the hypnotised subject and the hypnotist, and between the spectator a

  • Home Stories

    Müller collected the most kitschy and colourful images of disturbed housewifes in evening gowns from 1950s Hollywood melodramas and re-cut them.