Matthias Müller Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Muller/Girardet short

2002 short by Muller

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

This is somebody, nobody, anyone. This is us in the course of time. Persistently, in vain. The self is the need for permanent self-assertion.

2004 short by Muller

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.

2001 film by Muller