Country: Germany
Year: 1990
Duration: 6
Home Stories uses found
material, editing scenes of Hollywood-melodramas so that - because of the
repetition - the cinema-goddesses on the screen obtain the appearence of a
stereo-type classical victim. The beauties are looking at some kind of threat
that is placed outside the image, but the only thing that returns to them is the
perspective of the spetactor. Müller's heroine have many destinies but only one
role. They present the observed in a scope where looks can kill. Müller analyses
the mechanism of voyeurism and he uses the history of film as a basis for its
own game.
Biography
film director
Matthias Müller
Matthias Müller (Bielefeld, Germany, 1961) studied Arts and German Literature at the Bielefeld University. He has been guest professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and since 2003 he is professor for Experimental Film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. As a curator, he organized several avant-garde film events, such as the Found Footage Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Matthias Müller:
Home Stories (cm, 1990), Sleepy Heaven (cm, 1993), Vacancy (cm, 1998), Phantom (cm, 2001), Album (cm, 2004).
Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller:
Manual (cm, 2002), Beacon (cm, 2002), 10 - Uma série de 4 curta metragens (2002), Play (cm, 2003), Mirror (cm, 2003), Kristall (cm, 2006), Contre-jour (cm, 2008), Maybe Siam (cm, 2009), Meteor (cm, 2013), Cut (cm, 2013).Cast
& Credits
Regia, montaggio/ Director, film editor
: Matthias Müller
Musica/Music : Dirk Schaefer
Musica/Music : Dirk Schaefer