Film evening with Matthias Müller.
879 color / J. Tobias Anderson, MiniDV, 2 min., Sweden 2002, No dialogue. Experimental.
This animated film is based on 879 drawn film stills from Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense classic North By Northwest (1959). Starring an animated character à la Cary Grant, the film puts a new spin on images that have since become cliché.
Fast Film / Virgil Widrich, 35 mm, 14 min., Austria/Luxembourg 2003
A kiss, a happy couple. But suddenly the woman is kidnapped. The man sets out to rescue her. A rescue drama full of wild chases begins. All the scenes are taken from 300 different works of film history, and the identity of the heroes changes just as often. But the production technique is particularly astonishing: 65,000 paper printouts of the original sequences were folded into paper objects, then arranged into complex tableaux and brought back to life with the trick camera in a tour de force through film history.
Phoenix Tapes / Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, music for Bedroom: Dirk Schaefer, Betacam SP, 47 min, color/b/w, D 1999
Die Phoenix Tapes were commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art Oxford for the exhibition “Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art”. In a cycle of 6 videos, the filmmakers assemble a collection of moments from Hitchcock’s works such as deserted places, handbags and insane lovers. This montage of recurring Alfred Hitchcock leitmotifs reveals a universal canon of gestures that encompasses both cinematic and everyday forms of communication.
#1 Rutland, #2 Burden of Proof #3 Derailed, #4 Why Don’t You Love Me?, #5 Bedroom, #6 Necrologue
The source material for this animated film is the famous cornfield scene from Alfred Hitchcock’sNorth