Matthias Müller
Filmography
(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.
15'
Germany
IFFR 1994
Sternenschauer
Homo-erotic fireworks.
2'
Germany
IFFR 1995
Alpsee
Dreamed return to the living-womb of the early sixties.
15'
Germany
IFFR 1996
Pensao globo
Man infected with the HIV virus prepares for his impending death in Lisbon.
15'
Germany
IFFR 1998
Phoenix Tapes
Brilliant reordering of fragments from Alfred Hitchcock's opulent oeuvre alienates and also does justice to the master.
45'
Germany
IFFR 2000
Vacancy
Personal and layered evocation of the 'dream city' Brasilia, made by one of the masters of the short film Matthias Müller.
14'
Germany
IFFR 2000
Breeze
1-Minute avant-garde poem about what film is (too).
1'
Austria
IFFR 2001
Nebel
Enchanting, hypnotic film about the seasons, mist, light, nostalgia, poetry, based on a poem by Ernst Jandl.
12'
Luxembourg
IFFR 2001
Sleepy Haven
About the sensuality of the naked torso of a sailor. Masterful found-footage adaptation.
15'
Germany
IFFR 2001
Phantom
Short film originally made as installation in which silhouettes are imprisoned in the (negative) image and a 'loop'.
5'
Germany
IFFR 2002
Beacon
A timeless and imaginary portrait of the coast, with waves of melancholy and nostalgia.
15'
Germany
IFFR 2003
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 any manageability of life to sheer absurdity.
Germany
IFFR 2003
Mirror
Collection of frozen tableaux only moved by the light. With echos of Antonioni.
8'
Germany
IFFR 2005
Play
Play is a montage of archive footage of audiences in which the on-screen action can only be seen reflected in the facial expressions and gestures of the audience. Individual behaviour condenses into collective behaviour. The event is transferred from the stage to the hall; audience members become the actors in an unpredictable drama.
8'
Germany
IFFR 2005
Contre-jour
Dana Linssen wrote about this work in de Filmkrant: 'A film that wants to make us experience nothing else but Light! Light! Light! and life between the flashes.'Screened before Was du nicht siehst.
11'
Germany
IFFR 2010
Meteor
A voyage from the children's room to outer space, using elements of feature films, fairy tale moments gone astray and vintage science fiction motifs.
15'
Germany
IFFR 2012
Screen
A mesmerising accumulation of floating imagery reverses the relationship between the hypnotised subject and the hypnotist, and between the spectator and the screen.
18'
Germany
IFFR 2019
Home Stories
Müller collected the most kitschy and colourful images of disturbed housewifes in evening gowns from 1950s Hollywood melodramas and re-cut them. (sixpack)
6'
Germany
IFFR 2020