{"id":797,"date":"2006-04-27T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T00:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=797"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:39:12","slug":"the-memo-book-the-films-and-videos-of-matthias-muller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/04\/27\/the-memo-book-the-films-and-videos-of-matthias-muller\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memo Book: The Films and Videos of Matthias M\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><strong>Thursday, April 27, 2006, 6pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/muller450.jpg\" alt=\"muller450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><em>Curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span>\u201cM\u00fcller\u2019s deeply felt and elegantly constructed work marks him as one of the most important filmmakers of his generation.\u201d (Mike Hoolboom)<span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span><span>Matthias M\u00fcller\u2019s work can be read as the unwritten history of German experimental film. At once moving and smart, his lush, image-rich films and videos draw on the broad iconography of Hollywood melodrama (and its reflection in the queer avant-garde), Super 8 home-movie fragments, brooding Expressionist themes, and structuralist rigor to reflect a deep engagement with history, media, and memory. Tonight\u2019s program is the second evening in a three-part retrospective of M\u00fcller\u2019s work curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, artistic director of the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek in Berlin and co-presented by the Experimental Film Club at the University of Chicago and Block Cinema and includes his 1989 masterpiece <em>Aus Der Ferne \u2013 The Memo Book <\/em><\/span><span>along with:<span> <\/span><em>Sleepy Haven <\/em><\/span><span>(1993); <em>Sternenschauer \u2013 Scattering <\/em><\/span><span>(1994); <em>Home Stories <\/em><\/span><span>(1990); and <em>Alpsee <\/em><\/span><span>(1994). Part one screens Wednesday, April 26 at Block Cinema. Part three screens Friday, April 28 at the EFC.<\/span> 1989-1994, Matthias M\u00fcller, Germany, ca. 65 min, 16mm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 27, 2006, 6pm Curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus in person! \u201cM\u00fcller\u2019s deeply felt and elegantly constructed work marks him as one of the most important filmmakers of his generation.\u201d (Mike Hoolboom) Matthias M\u00fcller\u2019s work can be read as the unwritten history of German experimental film. At once moving and smart, his lush, image-rich films [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2006\/04\/27\/the-memo-book-the-films-and-videos-of-matthias-muller\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from The Memo Book: The Films and Videos of Matthias M\u00fcller<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[152,206,423],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8798,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/8798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}