Matthias Müller Movies

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.

The body as a wound that never heals.

A short feature about an optical experiment.

In Phantom, each face, each body appears, like cinema itself, from beneath a curtain that flutters and flickers to reveal haunted silhouettes that...

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,...

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

Muller/Girardet short

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...

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

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

Time and again, the feature film places animal actors at the side of its human protagonists – sometimes as loyal companions, sometimes as...

Matthias Müller's short is based on the poems to childhood by famed Austrian lyrical aertist Ernst Jandl who tried to write these poems in a...

2004 short by Muller

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

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

2002 short by Muller

Album also represents a further step on a path Müller set off on several years ago: away from festivals and toward the art market. Album does...