Living the Light – Robby Müller

Director of photography Robby Müller is one of the few people in the world who knows how to play the sun. How to catch its rays like butterflies. How to strike its beams like chords. Not only does music reverberate and resonate from these tenderly spun threads of light, the camera turns into a musical instrument as well and the whole world dances, radiates, is illuminated. For her film essay Living the Light - Robby Müller, director and director of photography Claire Pijman had access to Müller’s personal archive: thousands of Hi8 videos, personal pictures, set photos and Polaroids that he shot throughout his career. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his œuvre, creating a fluid and cinematic continuum.
With his ground-breaking camerawork, inventive and innovative lighting methods, his exceptional sense for depth of colour, freedom of framing, and his on-going quest for simplicity, Müller has encouraged generations of directors of photography to discover their own eye. Even when his films are finished, his images keep on moving. The light never fades because Müller always created space for the story to speak through the images. To come into the light. Living the Light – Robby Müller is the story of that light.