contre-jour

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2009 runtime 11'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch

The look with which we comprehend the world and which it casts back at us in response breaks up in CONTRE-JOUR into disquieting fragments. Blurs, flashes and stroboscope montages disintegrate reality into shadowy images that inflict pain on the eye. A spotlight precisely cuts the individual out of the darkness. I wish you could see what I see remains futile hope. Blind spots gape between self-perception and the perception of others.

director Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet Besetzung / Cast Elisabeth Masé, Ralph Kostrzewa Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Schnitt / Editing Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Drehbuch / Script Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Tongestaltung / Sound Design Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Bildgestaltung / DOP Christian Girardet
Production
  • Christoph Girardet
Distribution
  • LIGHT CONE
  • Christophe Bichon
  • 41bis, Quai de Loire
  • 75019 Paris
  • +33 1 46590153
  • http://www.lightcone.org
Sales
  • LIGHT CONE
  • Christophe Bichon
  • 41bis, Quai de Loire
  • 75019 Paris
  • +33 1 46590153
  • http://www.lightcone.org

Matthias Müller

Born 1961 in Bielefeld;
makes films and videos since 1980;
Girardet and Müller successfully collaborate since their found footage work PHOENIX TAPES was commissioned by the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in 1999

Filmography
1990 Home Stories
1994 Alpsee
1998 Vacancy
2000 nebel
2001 Phantom
2004 Album
2016 Air

Christoph Girardet

Born 1966 in Langenhagen;
produces videos and installations since 1987;
Girardet and Müller successfully collaborate since their found footage work PHOENIX TAPES was commissioned by the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in 1999

Filmography
1991 Schwertkampf
1997 Release
2001 Scratch
2002 Absence
2004 Fiction Artists
2007 Pianoforte
2016 Synthesis