# Michael Ballhaus **Domain:** Cinema / Visual Mediation **Doc Type:** Cinematographer Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[World on a Wire (1973)]], [[The Thirteenth Floor (1999)]], [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] --- ## Definition Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017) was a German cinematographer whose work with Fassbinder included _World on a Wire_; he later served as a producer on _The Thirteenth Floor_. ## Corpus Context His presence across the two Galouye adaptations supplies a personnel bridge in the cinema of substrate reversal. ## Relationships [[World on a Wire (1973)]], [[The Thirteenth Floor (1999)]], [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]