F.W.M. Symphonie is a silent film project with a fictional plot based on the real events surrounding the disappearance of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's head: the embalmed skull stolen from the film director's grave in 2015 becomes the anchor point of a narrative about the intersection of historical and fictional identities. The figure of the vampire created by Murnau is iconographically immortal and almost inseparable from Murnau's or Max Schreck's persona. F.W.M. Symphonie is a homage to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, silent film and classical modernism in general, as well as an artistic attempt to make amends for the desecration of Murnau's grave.