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Nebel is based on the poems to childhood by famed Austrian lyrical aertist Ernst Jandl who tried to write these poems in a language used by children, including nursery rhymes and prayers. Müller uses found footage and amateur films from his own childhood to create a visual equivalent to these poems.

(Matthias Müller)


Müller takes up Jandl´s challenge of looking at things backwards and forwards, and translates his paradoxical logic into filmic terms. He successfully avoids the pitfall of stringing together one-to-one illustrations of the poet´s imagery. Instead, he has chosen personal associations chat are far more subtle.

(Marcy Goldberg, In: Visions du Réel, cat., Nyon, 2002)

Orig. Title
Nebel
Year
2000
Countries
Austria, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration
12 min
Director
Matthias Müller
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
German
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Credits
Director
Matthias Müller
Available Formats
35 mm (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,37
Frame Rate
24 fps
Festivals (Selection)
2000
Wien - Viennale - Int. Filmfestwochen
2001
Tokyo - Image Forum Festival
Nyon - Dokumentarfilm Festival
Rotterdam - Int. Filmfestival
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films
Zürich - VIDEOEXperimental; Video & Film Festival
Vila do Conde - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens
Sao Paulo - Short Film Festival
Odense - Int. Film Festival
Montréal - Festival International du Nouveau Film et de la Video
Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
Winterthur - Kurzfilmtage
Luzern - VIPER - Int. Film und Video Festival
London - BFI International Film Festival
Regensburg - Kurzfilmwoche
Oberhausen - Int. Kurzfilmtage
2002
Windsor - Media City
Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival
Osnabrück - EMAF - European Media Art Festival
Melbourne - Int. Film Festival
Saarbrücken - Saar Lor Lux Film und Videofestival
Kassel - Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest
Denver - Int. Film Festival
2003
Istanbul - Int. Short Film Festival
Ann Arbor - Film Festival