Director
Christoph Girardet
59 years · Langenhagen, Germany · 20 films
Born in 1966, he is a German video artist and filmmaker. Girardet makes both the accidentally found and the extensively researched found footage from the archives of film history the subject of his art. Montage, omissions, and repetitions reveal the underlying structures and inner mechanisms of cinematic reality. Beyond this analysis of material and its clichés, his work engages with a melancholic sense of absence, creating an individual pictorial world. Girardet’s films were twice showcased in the In Silico competition: Personne (2016) and It Was Still Her Face (2017).
Best known for
Filmography 20
One Hundred Years Later
2025 · Director, Producer
No animal
2022 · Director
Misty Picture
2021 · Director
Screen
2018 · Director
Personne
2016 · Director
Cut
2013 · Director
Meteor
2011 · Director, Editor
Maybe Siam
2010 · Writer, Director
Contre-jour
2009 · Director
Hide
2006 · Director
Kristall
2006 · Director, Editor
Catch
2005 · Director
Absence
2004 · Director
60 Seconds
2004 · Director
Play
2003 · Director
Mirror
2003 · Director
Beacon
2002 · Director, Editor
Manual
2002 · Director
Phoenix Tapes
1999 · Director
Feverish Red
1993 · Director