This is not for everyone.
Only for those
who feel that behind the mask
of good and evil
lies the treasure
of who you truly are.
Thirteen films. One Universe. One author.
by writer & director
Johannes Wachsmuth
At some point, something breaks.
Your relationship.
Your identity.
Your idea of yourself.
And suddenly
your life is crumbling like a house of cards.
This is where
begins.
The worm now builds itself a house,
only to destroy it again
in order to be born
as a butterfly.
You don’t meet people by accident.
You meet what you haven’t faced.
The betrayer.
The abandoner.
The one who breaks your control.
Different faces.
Same force.
Victim. Perpetrator.
Minus. Plus.
One closed loop.
But all of them carry the chance
to recognize yourself.
The exit of the loop.
Every Myth Noir story begins the same way:
Someone can no longer live their old life.
A life built on the same pattern:
Blame (-) and control (+).
Guilt (-) and punishment (+).
Victim (-) and perpetrator (+).
The pattern has a shape.
A vicious cycle, visualized as a lying eight.
It works,
until it doesn’t.
And when it breaks,
there is no way back.
What follows is not a choice.
It’s a collapse.
The only exit:
the path toward oneself.
The liberation of the true self.
Neither minus nor plus.
No longer attracting the opposite.
My films do not explain this journey.
They make you pass through it.
Through a transformation
that is already laid out
within you.
They are intensely plot-driven
and forces transformation.
If Lynch made you feel it,
and Nolan made you think it,
makes you LIVE it.
because these stories
make the invisible
visible.
because the road
runs through shadow
into
Light
exists on two levels
Small. Precise. Uncompromising.
Ultra-lean productions.
Arthouse cinema.
Streaming.
These films are laboratories,
where the universe expands
and the audience is built.
Larger in scale.
Wider in reach.
International co-productions.
Cinema release.
Global audience.
These films bring the vision
into the world.
With the potential
to become cult classics.
Two speeds.
One universe.
One author.
A global arthouse audience is growing.
Urban. Aware. Emotionally literate.
They fill the sidebars of Cannes.
The competitions of Locarno and Berlin.
The cinemas of Berlin, Tokyo, New York, São Paulo, Lisbon, Barcelona.
They subscribe to MUBI.
They watch A24 movies.
They follow filmmakers,
not franchises.
is built for them.
A contained universe with universal stakes.
Intimate in scale. Immediate in impact.
But rooted in the oldest questions:
Guilt and punishment.
Freedom and control.
Good and evil.
And beneath it all
– the same longing:
to resolve these opposites.
In a saturated market,
recognizability is currency.
It is not just a genre.
It is a world.
With its own laws. Its own aesthetic. Its own emotional logic.
Several films carry cult potential,
designed for long-term audience loyalty,
cross-media expansion,
and cultural imprint.
13 films.
One universe.
One author.
Because identity is not created once.
It is built through repetition.
Through pattern.
And people don’t remember visuals.
They remember patterns.
THE BLACK & WHITE GAME
Feature film | 79 min
Genre: Myth Noir Thriller
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
*2023
A man is trapped
inside a stark black-and-white computer game
where only two kinds of avatars exist:
victims and offenders.
When a mysterious woman offers him a way out,
he must first become the other avatar
and play the game against himself to crack its code.
„In essence,
THE BLACK & WHITE GAME
is more than a film;
it's a philosophical inquiry
wrapped in the guise of a sci-fi thriller.
Wachsmuth, much like David Lynch
in "Mulholland Drive,"
uses the medium
to explore deeper truths
about identity, reality,
and the human psyche.
This film is a must-watch
for those who appreciate cinema
that challenges, provokes,
and ultimately enlightens. Grade A.“
Jasper Lorenz
(FILMHAUS BERLIN)
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GREATER THAN THE WORLD
Feature film | 83 min
Genre: Myth Noir Survival
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
*2026
A woman washes ashore,
her husband thought lost.
Their reunion shatters quickly,
when a mysterious woman arrives,
and the illusion of love begins to crack.
Drawn into isolation,
she discovers a hidden gospel
and awakens
to the most radical truth of all:
herself.
Premiere summer 2026
CAST
CLARA DE LA RUA
JACK ROLF
JOHANNES WACHSMUTH
ROXANNE DOUMEN
SUSIE SANCHES
EDUARDO MAGALHÃES
SOFIA VON MENTZINGEN
UPCOMING:
THE END IS THE BEGINNING
Feature film
Genre: Myth Road Noir
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
Helios has just quit his former life
when a woman named Iris jumps into his car
after a bank robbery.
Their forced escape becomes a fragile alliance
and as the road unfolds,
anger slowly turns into euphoria,
and they begin to lose the sense
of whether they are running away from the past
or heading towards a glorious future.
This is not a road movie about escape
- it is an initiation.
In Pre-production | Shoot: Autumn 2026
THE LAST MAN
Feature film
WUNDERWALD production | BRO Cinema
Genre: Dystopian Myth Noir
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
An isolated outsider eliminates all men in the world
in order to finally pick up women.
What begins as a fantasy of unlimited access to women
turns into a nightmare of power.
In advance development | Shoot: 2027
I MISS YOU
Feature film
Genre: Myth Noir Elegy
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
His words seem written for her.
Her paintings seem dreamed by him.
Two strangers shape each other’s lives
– without ever knowing the other exists.
And in every scene, they seem about to meet
– yet always miss each other.
But will they ever meet?
In development
HALF A FRUIT IS ROTTEN
Feature film
Genre: Myth Noir Requiem
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
After discovering that his wife has cheated on him,
a man is overcome with uncontrollable rage.
To protect others from his uncontrollable anger,
he has himself arrested
and ultimately ends up in the electric chair.
But as his life unfolds backwards, one question remains:
did it begin with her betrayal,
or with his?
In development
THE VERTICAL EMPIRE
Feature film
Genre: Myth Sci-Fi Noir
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
A woman lives on the moon
and begins mysteriously growing taller
with each passing day.
A doctor’s prescription: become a mother.
But pregnancy opens a path into a past life,
where a buried truth awaits.
– What if the child she carries
returns to settle an old debt?
In development
THE SUBSTITUTE
Feature film
Genre: Myth Noir Fable
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
After losing everything in a single day,
a man escapes into an app
that simulates the opposite of his suffering.
But when the consequences he avoided return in real life,
he is forced to face them.
And when the system offers him a way back,
a woman is sent by the app company
to convince him to stay within the illusion.
One question remains:
What if the opposite is not an escape from suffering,
but an invisible mirror
of a forgotten treasure?
In development
AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
Feature film
Genre: Myth Meta Noir
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
A struggling filmmaker discovers he is the reincarnation
of the forgotten author of France’s most famous song.
But when he turns that revelation into a film,
past life, present reality and cinema itself begin to merge.
In development
LANIAKEA
Feature film
Genre: Myth Sci-Fi Odyssey
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
In a dystopian megacity,
a scientist tries to defeat death
through atomic manipulation.
But when she discovers an entire universe
inside a single atom, she becomes a target.
As she follows it deeper into the supercluster Laniakea,
one question emerges: is she exploring the universe,
or herself?
In development
PRICE OF FREEDOM
Feature film
Genre: Myth Sci-Fi Noir
written & directed by Johannes Wachsmuth
A man asks his wife for permission
to sleep with another woman.
She agrees, and demands the same right for herself
and his world collapses.
And one question remains:
was it ever freedom,
or control he was about to lose?
In development
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Johannes Wachsmuth is a writer, director,
cinematographer, producer
and founder of WUNDERWALD productions.
He creates films as an act of authorship,
developed, shot, and realized with full creative control.
His vision is rooted in the idea of self-realisation
as the only way to break the patterns we repeat.
His work is driven by strong premises, clear authorship
and plot-driven mythic storytelling about transformation.
His debut feature THE BLACK & WHITE GAME
was produced without a crew
and received multiple international awards.
It marked the beginning
of the MYTH NOIR universe.
The pattern repeats
– until it is seen.
If you see it
– you are already part of it.
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