Christoph Girardet

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 found-footage film in which time ticks away on the watches of the film industry. They do not just function as dramatic signs for expectation and...

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

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

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

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...

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

A woman, a man, guests at an evening party. Settings, which are gradually abandoned; the remains of an event, gazes that have lost their object.

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

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

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

In slow dissolves, loops of images of enacted absence are projected in white light. Most of the images come from the black-and-white film series The...

About blind people in Hollywood films

About blind people in Hollywood films

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

A short feature about an optical experiment.

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

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

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...

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...

Short by Christoph Girardet.

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.

The raw material for an uncompleted 1939 documentary shows art students working in painting and sculpture classes as well as in museums. Many scenes...

Girardet reconstructs a 1950s fashion commercial using only remnants of the original footage, resulting in an intriguing silent pantomime. This...

Portraits of women, and the men who are spellbound by them. Painted portraits are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects...

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

“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with...

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

A short story about new bodies, the power of denial, and a state of no sunshine. Two infantile bodies float in a cyberspace ball, connected by two...

A short story about new bodies, the power of denial, and a state of no sunshine. Two infantile bodies float in a cyberspace ball, connected by two...