At the same time, Matti Braun's glass works also draw on a tightly woven web of references and associations characteristic of the artist's practice: an early glass work was used as prop in his staging of his play The Alien (based on the unrealized film project by Satyajit Ray, said to have inspired Steven Spielberg's film E.T.). For this project, Braun conceived the set, the props and the costumes.