Matthias Müller Movies

  • 1990
    Home Stories

    Home Stories

    Home Stories

    6.91990HD

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

    Home Stories
  • 2002
    Manual

    Manual

    Manual

    7.52002HD

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

    Manual
  • 2016
    Iggy Pop: Live in Basel 2015

    Iggy Pop: Live in Basel 2015

    Iggy Pop: Live in Basel 2015

    102016HD

    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...

    Iggy Pop: Live in Basel 2015
  • 2006
    Kristall

    Kristall

    Kristall

    32006HD

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

    Kristall
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    82002HD

    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...

    Beacon
  • 2011
    Meteor

    Meteor

    Meteor

    52011HD

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

    Meteor
  • 2005
    Ray

    Ray

    Ray

    1.52005HD

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

    Ray
  • 2009
    Contre-jour

    Contre-jour

    Contre-jour

    02009HD

    A short feature about an optical experiment.

    Contre-jour
  • 1987
    Final Cut

    Final Cut

    Final Cut

    01987HD

    An early Super 8 collage experiment by Müller using found film reels and home‑movie fragments.

    Final Cut
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    51997HD

    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...

    Pensão Globo
  • 2003
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

    02003HD

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

    Promises
  • 2022
    No animal

    No animal

    No animal

    02022HD

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

    No animal
  • 1999
    Phoenix Tapes

    Phoenix Tapes

    Phoenix Tapes

    5.61999HD

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

    Phoenix Tapes
  • 2000
    Mist

    Mist

    Mist

    5.52000HD

    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...

    Mist
  • 2006
    Hide

    Hide

    Hide

    5.52006HD

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

    Hide
  • 1985
    Continental Breakfast

    Continental Breakfast

    Continental Breakfast

    01985HD

    As a couple awakens and rituals of breakfast unfold, war news headlines and radio radio broadcasts emerge in layers.

    Continental Breakfast
  • 2021
    Misty Picture

    Misty Picture

    Misty Picture

    02021HD

    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,...

    Misty Picture
  • 2005
    Catch

    Catch

    Catch

    42005HD

    Muller/Girardet short

    Catch
  • 2010
    Maybe Siam

    Maybe Siam

    Maybe Siam

    02010HD

    About blind people in Hollywood films

    Maybe Siam
  • 2001
    Phantom

    Phantom

    Phantom

    5.82001HD

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

    Phantom