Country: Germany
Year: 2009
Duration: 12'
maybe siam Like an eye that cannot see, black separates the images of film clips that show blind people taking on the limits of their condition, bumping into walls and furniture as though imprisoned in hostile and unnatural environments. From Bette Davis’ famous eyes in Dark Victory to Jessica Alba’s in the recent The Eye, Mia Farrow in Blind Terror and Uma Thurman’s anxiety in Jennifer 8, passing by way of Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession and Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue, all the way to the convulsive frames of Butterflies Are Free and the explicitly horrific images of Macabre. In this net of references, the soundtrack plays with the images, anticipating the contents of the next black frame, while the notes of Perry Como’s version of Far Away Places accompany the difficult movements of the blind. “They call me a dreamer, well maybe I am./But I know that I’m burnin’to see/Those far away places with the strange-soundin’names/Callin’, callin’ me.” (from Far Away Places)
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).
Christoph Girardet
Christoph Girardet (Langenhagen, Germany, 1966) studied fine arts at the Braunschweig School of Art. He started producing video installations in 1989 and started his collaboration with Matthias Müller in 1999. Solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at institutions such as the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna and the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. He now lives and works in Hannover.
FILMOGRAFIA
Christoph Girardet:
Schwertkampf (cm, 1991), Fieberrot (cm, 1993), Release (cm, 1997), Scratch (cm, 2001), Absence (cm, 2002), Nero (cm, 2006).
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, soggetto, montaggio, suono, produttori/directors, story, film editing, sound, producers
Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller
musica/music
Perry Como
vendita all’estero/world sales
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