After training as a sculptor, Robert Müller studied sculpture and animated film at the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel ESAV (now HEAD) in Geneva. Since 1986 he has been running his own studio and film studio in Buttisholz, Lucerne. In recent years, he has realised various animated and documentary films in addition to artistic works in the fields of architecture and space. His work has won several awards and has been shown at festivals, museums and galleries worldwide.

In 2006, he founded the company ZEITRAUM FILM GmbH together with Bernard Weber, with which he realises cinema documentaries as well as animated films and in particular also promotes film projects by up-and-coming filmmakers or supports filmmakers in the field of dramaturgy and project development. ZEITRAUM FILM has been based in Zurich, Am Wasser 55, since 2018.

Robert Müller has also been working part-time at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2002, as well as a lecturer in the Master's Film programme, in interdisciplinary modules and as a researcher, and is a member of Visarte, the Swiss Animated Film Group STFG and the Swiss Association of Film Directors and Screenwriters (ARF/FDS).

Robert Müller's work always focuses on the possibilities of storytelling in different film formats as well as the effects of various reception situations such as in museums, on the street, within art installations or archaic landscapes.

Awards / prizes (selection)
2018 KÖHLERNÄCHTE
Prize of the Jury, Intern. Documentary Film Festival Trento

2012 THE WIESENBERGER
Production, Audience Award Solothurn Film Festival and Eberswalde International Film Festival

2007 FAUSTRECHT
Work contribution Canton Lucerne and nomination for Max Ophüls Prize

2002 FAUSTRECHT
Guest prize from the city and canton of Lucerne for artistic work

1999 ALICE
Diploma competition animation film festival Annecy

1989 LATE SHOW
Prix Cinégram. Audience Award for Best Animation Film and Cefi Recognition Award for Film Decoration at the Solothurn Film Festival and Diploma Film Festival, Leipzig

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Ines Meyer Döring, born 1975 in Zurich, studied at the Vancouver Film School (CA) and graduated in 2005 with a degree in social sciences from the University of Fribourg (CH). From 1998 to 2005, she worked as an assistant producer and director at Condor Films, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Allcomm Productions, Weiss Productions, Edith Weibel PR and Planet SA Filmproduction. Since 2008, Ines Meyer has been Managing Director of inpix | video & events, based in Steffisburg, and is responsible for technical event management and event direction at the Solothurn Film Festival, among other things. Ines Meyer first worked with Robert Müller in 2002 as co-director on ABGEDREHT - a home film.
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Filmography director / production / editing (selection)

2018
WIE IM HIMMEL - Behind the scenes of an open-air theatre, documentary film

2013
MULI - A film about people, mules and mules in Switzerland, documentary film

2004
OUVERTURE D'UNE ARMOIRE, dance film, premiere at the Solothurn Film Festival 2005

2003
STADT OHNE NAMEN / short film for architect, ETH Zurich.

2002
ABGEDREHT, a Heimatfilm / documentary film, co-directed by Robert Müller.

1998
MAJA'S STORY / Indian-Canadian short film, Starring: Masumi Makhija (XXmin).

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Barbara Tänzler was born in Hameln (northern Germany) in 1967, planted her roots in Glarus and now lives in Zurich. She studied journalism and language teaching at the SAL in Zurich and completed a further training programme in cultural management at the Stapferhaus Lenzburg in 2016. She works in journalism, communication and cultural management and manages the offices of the Geschwister Kahl Foundation and the Musikalische Begegnungen Lenzburg (MBL) music festival, among others. Barbara Tänzler joined ZEITRAUM FILM in 2015 for the press work on the documentary film KÖHLERNÄCHTE.
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