Matthias Müller Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

Muller/Girardet short

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

About blind people in Hollywood films

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

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

A short feature about an optical experiment.

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