Matthias Müller

Matthias Müller: Multi-Media Poet

A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference and Retrospective
Presented by Boston University and the Goethe-Institute, Boston

September 29-30, 2006


The Boston University College of Communication would like to announce that we are holding a two-day conference and retrospective on the work of Matthias Müller entitled "Matthias Müller: Multimedia Poet." Müller is one of Germany's leading multi-media artists. Famous for his shorts, he has also worked in video and photography. Müller has, since the late 1980s, made a name for himself around the world with a wide variety of topics and treatments, ranging from lyrical explorations of the self to witty and subversive found footage appropriations of classical Hollywood movies.

Paul Arthur
Professor of Film Montclair State University
"Without Map or Compass? Matthias Müller in the Landscape of Contemporary Experimental Cinema"

Christine Noll Brinckmann
Professor Emeritus of Film Studies University of Zurich Switzerland
"Idiosyncrasies of Structure in Matthias Müller's Films"

José Gatti
Professor of Film Studies Universidade Federal de São Paulo Brazil
"Utopia and Dystopia in Matthias Müller's Vacancy"

Roy Grundmann
Assistant Professor of Film Studies Boston University
"Matthias Müller's Cinephilia"

Caroline A. Jones
Associate Professor of Art History Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Ruins in Reverse"

Akira Mizuta Lippit
Professor of Film and Japanese Culture University of Southern California Los Angeles
"The Extraordinary Cinema of Matthias Müller"

Laura Marks
Professor of Film and Media Simon Fraser University Canada
"After the Cinema of Promises"

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Curator Stiftung Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V., Germany
"Can There Be a Conclusive View on What We Did Earlier? A Photo Album of a German Generation"

Gregory Williams
Assistant Professor of Art History Boston University
"Thingsure: Reading Ernst Jandl through Matthias Müller's Eyes"

Robert Arnold
Associate Professor of Film Production Boston University

Kurt Fendt
Senior Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roger Hallas
Assistant Professor of English and Film Syracuse University

Saul Levine
Professor of Film Massachusetts College of Art

Federico Windhausen
Ph.D. California College of the Arts

Matthias Müller
Guest of Honor



For further information contact: Colin Root, Conference Manager - croot@bu.edu