After about a decade of enthusiastic involvement with small-format film, something has happened that some people miss every now and then when watching what they have filmed themselves: The creation…
Ancient Lore? Lovecraft in Brittany
After I had first filmed H.P. Lovecraft in THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (2017) on Dartmoor and in THE GARDEN (2019) in a cemetery in Savannah, the moment had come…
18 oder 24 Bilder pro Sekunde?
Spätestens seit der Festlegung auf 24 Bilder pro Sekunde (B/s) im kommerziellen Kino in den 1920ern sind die Amateure am Diskutieren, ob man auch mit 24 B/s drehen solle. Die…
Filming in times of pandemic: Three films by Patrick Müller
SPELLBOUND (2021) / INTO THE REALM OF THE NIGHT (2022) / L'HIVER DE L'ÉTERNITÉ (2022) Isolation and travel restrictions, lockdowns that came and went: the coronavirus pandemic also presented me…
Widescreen adventure: A Bauer camera in Deidesheim
I always make a New Year's resolution: to film with an attachment, or to be more precise: with the Iscomorphot 8 attachment lens! This stretches the 8mm film image during…
Making DIY prints from color negative film
I am an analog filmmaker. Therefore, I also want to project my films. Of course, I also scan them and then publish them where everyone else does these days, but…
External light meters
The question arises again and again as to whether external light meters are "more accurate" than those integrated into the cameras. Or whether you can use external exposure meters to…
How to Color Correct 16mm film
Who does not know them, the dull, gray digital scans of analog color negative film that can be found all over the Internet? Small gauge film beginners mistakenly think that…
In the cemetery of the heart: film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s poem “The Garden”
Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, déjà vus: Patrick Müllers adaptation of the poem The Garden is a hike through H.P Lovecraft's most personal garden.by Patrick Müller Since my youth I have…
Interview with Patrick Müller
In July, Lina Gasser from Switzerland interviewed me for her Matura thesis SUPER 8 - AN ANALOGUE SHORT FILM. I answered her questions. How did you come to filmmaking? What…