Since 1989, he has produced video tapes and video installations, since 1994 some of them in collaboration with video artist Volker Schreiner and since 1999 with filmmaker Matthias Müller…
It is the question as to what lies behind the surface of pictures which preoccupies Christoph Girardet. “Found footage” material, primarily from films of the nineteen-fifties and -sixties, serves as his point of departure for a filmic investigation in which scenes and images are first broken apart and deconstructed…