KOLUMBUS

short film 2D cut-out 4:30 min 2012
Directed and animated by Sonja Rohleder & Veronika Samartseva Columbus wakes up surrounded by rising waters and decides that instead of viewing this shock as a catastrophe he'll take it as an opportunity to set a course for his dreams. Faced with numerous hurdles and challenges en route to his goals, Columbus discovers that learning to appreciate the beauty in the journey and the unexpected is just as important as reaching your destination.  

Our Wonderful Nature

short filmcg animation05:072008
directed by Tomer Eshed

Flamingo Pride

short filmcg animation06:002011
Flamingo Pride directed by Tomer Eshed
Trailer Concept/Editing Jens Prausnitz

Chump And Clump

short filmcg animation10:352008
directed by Stephan Sacher and Michael Herm Chump and Clump meet at a bus station. Unfortunately, they have just missed their bus, which arrives only once a week. While waiting for the next bus, a bizarre and wonderfully raucous friendship develops, which still manages to prevail when all odds turn against our little heroes.

Lego Dance

short film 2D animation 0:30 min 2013
Directed and animated by Annette Jung Michael is doing the Lego dance.

OUR MAN IN NIRVANA

short film 3D computer 10:27 HFF „Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam-Babelsberg, 2005
Directed by Jan Koester A famous rockstar dies accidently during a concert and awakes in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds.

Froschwetter

short film 2D computer drawn animation 5:45 HFF „Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam-Babelsberg & Pauline Kortmann, 2011
Directed by Pauline Kortmann It’s hot. The weather frog is alarmed: if what the kids say is true, terrible things could happen to the climate! What exactly, the poor frog learns the hard way.
  • Animation: Pauline Kortmann, Ulf Grenzer, Marc Arnull, Christian Retzlaff
  • Compositing VFX: Dennis Rettkowski 
  • Live action DOP: Matthias Hofmeister

Rising Hope

short film 10 min Talking Animals, 2012
Rising Hope, who used to be the fastest horse in the world, suddenly turns into a loser. With the help of a new friend − a jack-of-all-trades hound − he finds hope and himself again.
Festivals:
  • Berlinale International Film Festival
  • Atlanta Film Festival, USA
  • Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
  • SICAF Seoul Int.Cartoon&Animation Festival
  • DOK-Leipzig 2012, Germany
  • Clermont-Ferrand 2012, France
  • Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2013, Germany
  • KROK Int. Animation Film Festival 2012, Ukraine
  • Encounters Film Festival 2012, Bristol, UK
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival 2012, USA
  • Curtas Vila do Conde 2012, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Awards:
  • "Cartoons & Sport" Cartoon on the Bay 2012, Italy
  • Best Animated Film, Young Jury Award at Rhode Island Int. Film Festival 2012, USA
  • Audience Award for Best Short Film - The 24 hours of Nuremberg Int. Short Film Festival 2012, Germany
  • Award of the Junior Jury for Best Short Film - Capalbio Cinema International Film Festival 2012, Italy
  • Best Film at the Animacam, International  Animation Festival 2013, in Ourense, Spain

NEVER DRIVE A CAR WHEN YOU`RE DEAD

SHORT FILMDRAWN ANIMATION2D10 MIN© 2009 HFF KONRAD WOLF
Directed  and animated by GREGOR DASHUBER The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano.Music leads him from his run down existence out into the city life.There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeats on the sidewalk.  

TRICKSTER

SHORT FILMCOMPUTER ANIMATION3D15 MIN© 2008 HFF KONRAD WOLF
Realized by Alexander Pohl The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a pitoresque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience undergoes an existantial development dreaming of his counterpart the whiteface clown and finally finding his true identity the immortal archetype of the Trickster.
 
screenplay, design, modelling, rigging, texturing, animation, shading, rendering, VFX: Alexander Pohl
virtual acting/ voice: Florian Hertweck
producer Fabian: Pöhlmann
camera: Till Vielrose
editor: Florian Metzner
music composed and orchestrated by: Stefan Maria Schneider
conductor: Stefan Maria Schneider
music performed by: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
solo trumpet: Jan Sebastian Melzer
sound design: Tilman Hopf
sound re-recording mixer: Alexej Ashkenazy
foley artist: Günter Röhn
line producer: Holger Lochau
technical support: Dennis Rettkowski

LITTLE PLASTIC FIGURE

SHORTFILM STOP-MOTION, PIXILATION & CLAY 03:00 min 2012 TIGER UNTERWEGS FILMPRODUKTION
Susie Asado sings and a small heroin waits for her spaghetti. Directed and animated by Veronika Samartseva and Anna Bergmann (SAMO-SAMA)
  • Camera and lighting: Thomas Bergmann      
  • Music: Susie Asado
  • sounddesign: Michał Krajczok
Screenings:
  • Filmfest Dresden
  • Zlín Film Festival
  • IndieLisboa Junior

BEAUTIFUL

beautiful
Music Video Mixed Media 03:27 min 2012
music video for SEEED - "Beautiful" Directed by Jan Koester 


 
  • production management: Moritz Mayer 
  • camera: Sebastian Klatt 
  • camera assistent: Olaf von Voss 
  • gaffer: Marc Lontzek 
  • lighting technician: Waldemar Bruch 
  • stunt coordinator: Ralf Haeger 
  • data wrangler, camera, making-of: Beatriz Barragan 
  • intern compositing: Jana Kritchever 
  • intern 2D animation: Anaiis Poilpre